A disgraced kids’s physician who organized to satisfy an underage boy for intercourse on hospital grounds has been struck off the medical register.
Salman Siddiqi, 45, was lured right into a entice by a self-professed ‘paedophile hunter’ who pretended to be a 14-year-old boy and organized to satisfy the guide at his lodgings on the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mom Hospital (QEQM) in Margate, Kent.
However when the novice detective confronted Siddiqi outdoors his lodging at 3am on January 8 final yr, he turned and ran by means of the hospital’s A&E division in a determined bid to flee.
The vigilante referred to as the police and chased after Siddiqi as he tried scrambling away, utilizing his hospital entry card to enter restricted areas.
He was arrested two hours later, and subsequently pleaded responsible to partaking in sexual communication with a baby and making an attempt to rearrange or facilitate the fee of a intercourse offence and jailed for 28 months.
It was later revealed that the intensive care paediatrician had been allowed to proceed treating kids regardless of beforehand receiving a police warning for flashing.
Siddiqi, who’s being held at HMP Maidstone, selected to not attend his three-day listening to on the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, primarily based in Manchester.
The tribunal panel discovered Sidiqqi’s actions undermined his health to practise, and he was struck off.
As soon as a health care provider has been erased from the register they’re unable to follow and should wait 5 years earlier than making use of to have their identify restored, nevertheless because of the nature of the Siddiqi’s conviction it’s unlikely he’ll ever be granted a licence to follow once more.
An interim order of suspension had been in place concerning Siddiqi whereas awaiting the listening to, which was attributable to expire on the finish of the month.
Siddiqi’s sentencing listening to at Canterbury Crown Courtroom heard how he used homosexual relationship app Grindr to converse with a paedophile hunter claiming to be a 14-year-old boy referred to as Lee.
The physician additionally lied about his age on his profile, saying he was 32 when the truth is he was 44.
‘Mr Siddiqi engaged with “Lee” on the Grindr app and requested him to return to his residence for oral intercourse and despatched footage of his erect penis,” prosecutor Amy Nicholson mentioned.
‘He requested him to return to his administrative center to satisfy him on the QEQM, the place the defendant was working on the time as a paediatric physician.’
The pair began speaking on January 7, with ‘Lee’ making it clear he was underage, the courtroom heard.
The novice detective requested: ‘Are you okay with me being 14?’
‘Sure’ Siddiqi replied.
In later messages, when requested if he needed to satisfy, Siddiqi mentioned: ‘It’s not allowed by legislation in any other case I might’ve liked it.’
The vigilante wrote: ‘I can sneak out, my mum’s sleeping. We may have some enjoyable collectively however I’m fairly new to this and I’m nervous. I’m simply 14 and never performed this earlier than.’
Siddiqi responded by reassuring his goal and inspiring him to participate in sexual acts.
Throughout his trial, Kevin Dent KC, mitigating, mentioned Siddiqi had an ‘unblemished’ report as a health care provider who ‘deeply regrets his conduct’.
He additionally advised how the offending had occurred in a ‘depressive episode’ and that Siddiqi was keen to deal with his behaviour.
The barrister mentioned: ‘On the time, Mr Siddiqi was battling the stresses and strains of caring for a severely disabled four-year-old son and the trauma of his situation.
‘He was additionally making an attempt to deal with his attraction to grownup males.’
He added the previous physician had turn out to be a ‘determine of disgrace and embarrassment to those that know him’.
Police beforehand cautioned Siddiqi for flashing his genitals in daylight in a London nature reserve in 2019.
He failed to inform the Normal Medical Council (GMC) concerning the warning, and in January 2021 began working for East Kent Hospitals, which runs the QEQM.
Siddiqi was employed by the belief by means of a recruitment company referred to as ProMedical, however regardless of the very fact his police warning would have proven on a Disclosure and Barring Service certificates, it was not picked up by both.
Two months later, Siddiqi advised GMC officers concerning the warning following an ‘casual dialogue’ with a senior colleague.
On the listening to this week panel members, Dr Srinivasarao Babarao, Susan Hurds and chairman Kamran Choudhry, had been advised to consider that Siddiqi had did not comply with by means of with the remediation steps he had dedicated to following his earlier suspension.
When assessing whether or not the conviction impaired Siddiqi’s skill to practise medication they raised the ‘important danger of repetition’, the likelihood the previous paediatrician may reoffend, as a significant factor of their choice making.
The Normal Medical Council’s consultant on the listening to, Nigel Grundy, said that the physique’s view was that Siddiqi’s erasure from the career was the one acceptable sanction.
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