A Chief Nurse for the hospital said the offences are ‘deeply distressing’
A nurse has admitted to making indecent images of children. Adam Feary was employed by the The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust as a nurse.
In January 2023, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) received a referral from the trust outlining how Feary had been arrested at work by the police. He had been arrested following an allegation of making indecent photographs/pseudo photographs of a child.
The former nurse was charged on March 21, 2025 and subsequently admitted to the offences at Norwich Crown Court on August 12, 2025. He was convicted for three counts of making indecent photographs/pseudo photographs of a child, possessing a prohibited image of a child, possessing extreme pornographic image/images portraying an act of intercourse/oral sex with a dead or alive animal and for possessing a paedophile manual.
On November 20, 2025 at King’s Lynn Crown Court, Feary was sentenced to 18-months in prison suspended for 18 months, an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order, and placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
Following Feary’s conviction, he faced an NMC hearing. According to the NMC report, the Judges’ comments said the paedophile manual “encourages people to offend and descends into a considerable amount of detail”. The panel also recognised the sentencing Judges’ comments which stated that “any normal human being would be appalled by the collection of paedophilic images you had on our computers”.
The panel found that Feary has demonstrated a “repeated pattern of behaviour and deep-seated attitudinal concerns”. The report said: “It considered the large volume of images found with over 14,000 images of children in total and nearly 2,000 images being Class A images which are the most serious.”
Dawn Collins, Chief Nurse at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, said: “We are aware of the conviction of a former member of nursing staff and recognise that these offences are deeply distressing. Our thoughts are with anyone affected by this case. The individual was arrested by police in January 2023 following an investigation of which the Trust had no prior knowledge. He was immediately suspended from duty, and a full internal investigation was undertaken.”
The panel noted that Feary’s conduct in the proved charges occurred outside of his nursing practice and found that “it had not in the past put patients at risk”. However, the panel identified he had breached the “fundamental tenets of the nursing profession and therefore brought its reputation into disrepute”.
The panel recognised that whilst Feary had eventually pleaded guilty to the charges, there was no evidence to “demonstrate insight, remorse or remediation”. As a result, the panel concluded that Feary would be struck off from the NMC register, the most serious sanction. This prevents the former nurse from working in that profession.
Ms Collins added: ” His employment with the Trust was terminated in July 2023 and he has since been removed from the Nursing and Midwifery Council register.
“The safety and wellbeing of our patients and staff is our highest priority. We take matters of this nature extremely seriously and work closely with the police and other agencies whenever concerns are raised.”
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn serves a catchment population of between 250,000 and 330,000 people. It’s the nearest hospital for people in parts of Fenland in northern Cambridgeshire.
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