A MEMBER of staff at Stockton Hall no longer wants to work there because a patient tried to attack her with a screwdriver, York Crown Court heard.

Bushrah Suleman, 28, is now considered so dangerous by the staff at the psychiatric unit just outside York that she is to be moved to Rampton maximum secure psychiatric hospital in North Nottinghamshire.

Yesterday at York Crown Court, she pleaded guilty to attempted wounding on January 18.

She was already sectioned under the Mental Health Act and the Honorary Recorder of York, Judge Paul Batty QC, added a condition that she only be released once the Justice Secretary is satisfied she is no longer a danger to the public.

He said Suleman had armed herself with a screwdriver and tried to attack a health worker in the hospital.

“She has been so traumatised as a result by what you were intending to do to her, she feels unable to work at that place that she loves so much,” he told the defendant.

“I am pleased to hear a bed will be made available for you at the maximum secure hospital at Rampton.”

Suleman was surrounded by four staff from the hospital in the secure dock in courtroom one at the crown court for the hearing.

A psychiatrist from the hospital gave evidence about her mental illness and said she is currently being treated in seclusion because of the way her behaviour has deteriorated recently.

No date has been set for her transfer. Rampton is one of four hospitals in Britain that deal with the most disturbed and dangerous people in the country.