A care home worker has been struck off for inappropriately touching his female colleagues in Paisley.

Paul Varghese sexually harassed three colleagues over two years while working for HC-One Limited as a care assistant at Hillside View Nursing Home.

He was suspended in 2015 after he touched three colleagues on the bottom, touched the breasts of two of them, and massaged them without consent.

He attempted to kiss one of the women, grabbed her, pressed her against him and massaged her earlobes.

After an investigation the Scottish Social Services Council said there had been "a pattern of abusive and disrespectful behaviour" towards his colleagues.

Ruling he had committed misconduct at work, the SSSC sub-committee concluded: "There is evidence that you engaged in a pattern of inappropriate behaviour of a sexual nature to a number of colleagues over a sustained period of time.

"Your actions towards AA, who the sub-committee considered to be particularly vulnerable because of her relatively young age and because she was relatively new to working at Hillside View Nursing Home, are of particular concern.

"The sub-committee was in no doubt that your actions towards her were liable to give rise to the risk of harm, in particular to the risk of distress and emotional harm."

After his suspension and disciplinary proceedings into the matters, Mr Varghese resigned from his employment, but failed to notify the SSSC.

The report further stated: "Your behaviour towards your colleagues AA, BB and CC both cumulatively, and in relation to AA individually, is sufficiently serious to call into question your suitability to work in a sector where the public need to be confident that members of the workforce treat one another with respect and that they are able to work in an environment in which they are not subject to abuse and/or placed at unnecessary risk of harm."