Police have launched a fresh probe into John Chukwunonso Iwuh, the psychiatric nurse who saved nearly 11,000 women’s details from dating apps on his phone, after a wave of new reports were made following his conviction for rape and voyeurism.
New investigation after additional reports
The Metropolitan Police confirmed it is now assessing a number of additional reports that have been made against Iwuh since he was jailed last July. In an update, the force said: “Following the conviction of John Chukwunoso Iwuh in 2025, a number of additional reports have been made to police. These are now being assessed. We continue to urge any victim-survivors to contact us or their local police force.”
During the original investigation, officers discovered almost 11,000 contacts on Iwuh’s phone — around 60 per cent of which were saved in the format of a woman’s name followed by the name of a dating app. Detective Inspector Sharad Verma, from the South Area Command Unit, said at the time of sentencing: “We believe there may be more victims out there, targeted by Iwuh under the same circumstances, and urge them to contact us or their local police force.”
Conviction and background
Iwuh, 54, of South Norwood, Croydon, was jailed for 16 years in July 2025 after being found guilty of raping a woman he met on the dating app Hinge and filming the attack. He used his position as an NHS mental health nurse — a role he had held for a decade — to gain her trust before luring her to his home in June 2022. The victim later said she felt “completely numb” and that the physical examination after reporting the assault felt “completely humiliating”. She told police she left London out of fear and questioned how Iwuh was still working as a psychiatric nurse.
Iwuh had also served as a priest. He is now on the sex offenders register for life and has been issued with a restraining order and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
At his sentencing hearing, it emerged that Iwuh was facing four other allegations, three of rape, which are being investigated separately by police forces in Essex and Dorset. The offences are alleged to have occurred in 2019, 2007 and 2022. The 2007 case is being treated as a cold case, with Essex police awaiting new DNA analysis.
Regulator’s failings
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the UK’s nursing regulator, has admitted it did not act quickly enough to suspend Iwuh after being told of the allegations by the Metropolitan Police in September 2022. Instead of suspending him immediately, the NMC allowed him to continue working with patients for more than a year while the police investigation was ongoing. The regulator only opened its own investigation in October 2023 — after Iwuh had been charged — and suspended him the following month.
In a statement, the NMC acknowledged that it “could – and should – have acted faster” and apologised for the delay. Since the case, the regulator has changed its guidance to allow temporary suspension orders to be imposed before a nurse is charged. It has also expanded its Sensitive and Complex Casework Team in an effort to prevent similar failures in future.
Two hospital trusts where Iwuh worked — Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust — launched their own inquiries into his conduct after The Independent brought his conviction to their attention. Both trusts have condemned his actions.
Anyone with information regarding John Chukwunonso Iwuh is urged to contact the police by calling 101.