The nurse is suing the Health Minister and the police chief for misusing personal information they kept about him and which was published on Mr Syvret’s blog.

However, in a response to the nurse’s claims filed with the Royal Court, the current Health Minister says that the former Senator is to blame and not her department.

Health’s response says that he was acting in his ‘personal capacity’ and not his ‘official capacity’, and that his actions were ‘improper and unauthorised’ when he published claims about the nurse.

The nurse, who worked at the General Hospital and in Jersey care homes in the 1990s and 2000s, has launched separate actions against the Health Minister and the chief of police, who both deny any wrongdoing.

• Full report in today’s JEP