A MAN who carried out a brutal attack on his girlfriend, leaving her paralysed and brain-damaged, has been moved from his job at the hospital where she is treated.

It emerged last month that Stephen Clark, who carried out the vicious attack on girlfriend Lisa Taylor in 2000 and was jailed for four years, was working at Musgrove Park Hospital where Lisa regularly has treatment.

Ms Taylor’s mum, Nancy, who has been caring for her daughter since the attack, was left shocked after coming face-to-face with Clark at the hospital.

But now Nancy has had a letter from the hospital confirming that he has been transferred to a “non caregiving role” at another site.

It follows on from an online petition which had more than 1,000 signatures and a campaign by Ms Taylor’s family to have him removed.

Nancy said: “We had a letter from the hospital last week apologising and saying that he had been moved from the hospital. But why did they employ him in the first place?

“We were told that he had done his time and that we had to move on. How can we move on?

"My daughter has been left in a wheelchair, she almost died.”

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust said it would not comment further and would not discuss a private, internal matter.