A Scots housing assist employee has been struck off after sexually harassing a number of colleagues by cupping their breasts and tapping their backsides.
Brian Lapsley had been working for Countrywide Care Houses Restricted in Falkirk when he inappropriately touched six feminine colleagues between 2008 and 2017.
Lapsley grabbed a colleague's costume and pulled it ahead to look down earlier than cupping her breast.
On one other event he informed her: "I need to contact and tweak your nipples".
Lapsley additionally kissed one other colleague on the neck after hugging her and later cupped her breast.
He was discovered to have intimidated his feminine colleagues and through a coaching day stood over a 3rd colleague and pushed himself towards her and a door.
He then tried to kiss her which left her feeling intimated.
A fourth sufferer was approached by Lapsley for a cuddle earlier than he put his hand underneath her armpit and stroked her breast.
On one other event he additionally opened his palm and brushed throughout the entrance of her chest, touching her nipple within the course of.
A fifth feminine colleague was double tapped on the bottom and known as a "naughty lady" after she requested him for assist together with her payslip.
One other incident noticed Lapsley grabbing his crotch and saying "oh I want you'll say that to me within the mornings" to her when she informed a affected person "time to get you up".
A sixth colleague additionally stated she was hugged, kissed and had her backside fondled by Lapsley on multiple event.
The Scottish Social Companies Council (SSSC) launched paperwork yesterday stating that had eliminated Lapsley from their register following an investigation.
The SSSC known as his actions "predatory" and stated he confirmed "severe and deep-seated attitudinal points".
On making their resolution, the SSSC stated: "Social service staff are anticipated to deal with their colleagues with dignity, respect and to take care of acceptable boundaries.
"Their colleagues have the best to count on to really feel secure and guarded at work.
"Your behaviour in the direction of six separate feminine colleagues was abusive, demeaning, intimidating and harassing in nature.
"Your behaviour is a sample of very regarding, and in some instances predatory, behaviour risking severe emotional and psychological hurt to these colleagues.
"Your conduct seems deliberate and deliberate, going down whenever you had been alone with every of the colleagues. There's a sample of comparable behaviour over a protracted time frame.
"That, along with the character of the behaviour, signifies severe and deep-seated values and attitudinal points.
"Such conduct may be very severe because it violates basic tenets of the caring career - to guard individuals from hurt and to not abuse others.
"We think about a removing order is essentially the most acceptable sanction as it's each essential and justified within the public curiosity and to take care of the persevering with belief and confidence within the social service career and the SSSC because the regulator of the career."
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