A NURSING manager who stole a £5,000 Rolex watch from a dying patient has been struck off.

Joseph Miller, 40, took the Submariner watch from 68-year-old David Davies.

Mr Davies, from Birdham, was being treated at St Richard’s Hospital, Chichester, in August 2014.

In 2016 Miller was sentenced to 14 months in prison, suspended for two years. Yesterday he was struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Its board said the offence was a significant departure from the code of conduct

Miller, a married father of two, admitted theft but claimed he had taken the watch by accident and then panicked when he found it at home.

He kept it in a shed for months.

Despite police appeals he tried to sell it 18 months later.

Miller, 40, of Barnham Lane, Walberton, near Littlehampton, said he had hoped to return to nursing in the future.