Sean Brian Patrick Kelly
Introduction
Sean Brian Patrick Kelly was a registered nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), registration number 23B1441E, recorded as an adult nurse, level 1. In a decision dated 23 April 2026, the NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of his convictions at Worthing Magistrates’ Court for attempting to send sexual communications to a child and for making an indecent photograph of a child. The panel accepted a consensual panel determination and struck him off the register, imposing a striking-off order with an 18-month interim suspension order to cover any appeal period .
Background Information
Kelly was registered with the NMC as a nurse under PIN 23B1441E, and his practitioner profile records his specialty as adult nurse, level 1 . Beyond his name, registration number, specialty and the outcome of his case, the public pages published by MedicWatch contain little biographical detail: they record no date of birth, no training history, no employment history and no earlier regulatory findings . After the decision, his profile carried the line “Erased from the register at last register check”, with the record last verified against the NMC register on 14 July 2026 .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings in this section come from a Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness-to-practise panel determination, which decided the charges on the balance of probabilities. Charges found proved are regulatory findings, not criminal convictions — but this case does include real criminal convictions: the determination records that Sean Brian Patrick Kelly was convicted at Worthing Magistrates’ Court, and those convictions are matters of court record as reported in the determination. No charges were found not proved; both charges were found proved, by way of Mr Kelly’s admissions in a signed provisional Consensual Panel Determination agreement, which the panel accepted.
The charge before the panel was that, on 4 March 2025 at Worthing Magistrates’ Court, he was convicted of two offences. The first was that, between 3 January 2024 and 6 January 2024, for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, he intentionally attempted to communicate sexually with a person under 16 whom he did not reasonably believe to be 16 or over, namely sending images of an erect penis and discussing sexual acts, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981. The second was that, on 11 December 2023, he made an indecent photograph, namely a Category A image, of a child, contrary to sections 1(1)(a) and 6 of the Protection of Children Act 1978 .
The charges were found proved by way of Mr Kelly’s admissions in the signed provisional Consensual Panel Determination agreement, which the panel accepted. The panel found his fitness to practise currently impaired by reason of his convictions, on both public protection and public interest grounds, concluding that his actions breached fundamental tenets of the profession and were fundamentally incompatible with remaining on the register .
In mitigation, the panel identified Mr Kelly’s admission to the facts. Its aggravating factors were absence of or limited insight; premeditated behaviour; and predatory behaviour. Having found impairment, the panel imposed a striking-off order, removing him from the register, with an 18-month interim suspension order to cover any appeal period .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The immediate consequence was the striking-off order itself, together with the 18-month interim suspension order covering any appeal period . Neither the determination page nor the practitioner profile records any press coverage, public statements or online campaigns connected with the case; both confine themselves to the regulator’s findings and links to the underlying decision . MedicWatch, which describes itself as an independent record service aggregating publicly published decisions of UK healthcare regulators, added the case to its record on 11 July 2026. Its plain-English summary of the determination reads: “The NMC’s Fitness to Practise Committee found that Sean Brian Patrick Kelly’s fitness to practise was impaired after his conviction at Worthing Magistrates’ Court for attempting to send sexual communications to a child and for making an indecent photograph of a child.”
Current Status
Kelly’s most recent recorded outcome is erasure — struck off the register — decided on 23 April 2026 by the NMC at a substantive hearing that began on the same day . His profile page states that he was “Erased from the register at last register check”, with the record last verified against the NMC register on 14 July 2026 . MedicWatch’s explainer notes that the regulator directed removal from the register in this decision, that the decision explains when the direction takes effect and any appeal provisions, and that readers should check the official NMC register for the practitioner’s current registration status .
Impact on Their Career/Life
The striking-off order removed Kelly from the register on which his status as a registered nurse depended, following the panel’s finding that his actions were fundamentally incompatible with remaining on the register . The determination page gives no information about his subsequent employment or personal circumstances, and the profile page records no later regulatory decisions . His case remains part of MedicWatch’s browsable record of nurse erasures, listed under the outcome “struck off the register” with the decision date of 23 April 2026 .