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A transgender nurse who kept a huge haul of explosives and ammunition at her Black Country home has been struck off.

Former soldier Joanne Morris, 49, was jailed for seven years last September and yesterday was also struck off the nursing register.

Morris, who has undergone a sex change, was a man going by the name of Paul Morris at the time of the arrest in November 2013.

He was working as a nurse and ambulance controller when police were alerted by Borders Agency staff who had intercepted a parcel containing gun parts to him.

Police raided Morris’s home in Station Road, Bloxwich, and found the largest single haul of its kind in the West Midlands in the last decade.

They found detonators, a total of 1.5kg of explosives, including sticks of plastic explosives and an IED - an improvised explosive device.

The haul also included ammunition presses, bullet casings and gun powder.

At the time, West Midlands Police said while there was “no evidence she intended to use them in anger”, they “posed a huge risk and were potentially deadly”.

Morris was jailed for seven years after admitting a total of 10 charges.

A hearing held by the Nursing and Midwifery Council has now ruled Morris had brought the profession into disrepute.

Morris admitted that her fitness to practise had been impaired as a result of the convictions.