Carer struck off for threatening woman and asking for drugs

A carer has been banned from working in the sector for threatening a woman in her own home in Dumfries and Galloway last July.

Leona Greenhorn was removed from the Scottish care register on Monday after “repeatedly” entering a woman’s house in Stranraer and asking her to supply “pharmaceutical products”.

Greenhorn allegedly went into the woman’s house twice and “behaved in a threatening or abusive manner” after she had been dismissed from her job.

Greenhorn was convicted at the Stranraer Sheriff Court for her behaviour in December, but now she’s also been banned from returning to the care sector.

A decision from the Scottish Social Service Council (SSSC) said Greenhorn used information obtained about during her time as a carer as a “means of attempting to obtain pharmaceutical products”.

The SSSC said her actions likely caused the care user “suffering, fear, or alarm”.

“[Greenhorn’s] actions in attending [the victim’s] home after your dismissal amount to an abuse of the trust placed in you by your former employer, [the victim] and her family,” the SSSC decision said.

“They are likely to have caused [the victim] to suffer emotional harm and may have impacted on her willingness to continue accepting support in her home.”

Greenhorn had registered as a carer in March 2024, just four months before she was dismissed from her job in Stranraer.

Then she returned to a vulnerable care user’s house twice in under two weeks to repeatedly ask for medication.

She was convicted in December.