A nurse of 20 years has been stripped of his license to practise after a disciplinary committee found him guilty of professional misconduct in a string of violent attacks on two disabled women.

A disciplinary panel of three nurses and two civilian members at the College of Nurses of Ontario ordered a revocation of David Little’s license at a Thursday hearing. They also found him guilty of physical and emotionally abusing the two vulnerable women, failing to meet standards of the profession, and engaging in disgraceful and dishonourable conduct.

The offences were captured on video surveillance footage taken at the residential home for people with disabilities, run by Community Living Essex County, where the women lived.

The women’s identities are protected by a publication ban. David Little did not attend and was not represented at the two-day hearing.

“It is sickening to watch those videos and the predatory attacks on those incredibly vulnerable women,” College lawyer Megan Shortreed told the panel.

The videos, which were made available to the panel, show Little engaging in a range attacks. He is seen punching one of the women while she takes a shower. He is also shown abruptly hitting a client with a hairbrush and jabbing a toothbrush in her mouth.

Little, 51, was criminally convicted of six counts of assault in January for some of the incidents, which took place over a two-week period in December 2015. He was hired as a personal support worker at the residential home about seven months earlier.

Shortreed told the disciplinary panel the fact that Little was not technically employed as a nurse in this position is immaterial, because he was still registered as a nurse.

“He was, therefore, a member, subject to all the obligations of nurses and all of the standards and ethical expectations of practice applied to him at that time,” Shortreed said.

The incidents came to his employer’s attention after another staff member allegedly heard Little being verbally aggressive with one of the women. The employer reported the incidents to police and the College.

Last year, the College revoked the licenses of 12 nurses out of a total of 39 matters in which findings of professional misconduct were made, according to the discipline committee’s annual report for 2016.