A Glasgow doctor has been suspended for a year after being convicted of offences that included stalking a woman and sending her "hundreds" of communications that included topics such as rape and murder.
Dr Anatta Nergui, a psychiatric doctor, was convicted at Glasgow Sheriff Court on March 18, 2020 and pled guilty to the offences, which also included resisting when the police attempted to arrest him. He was sentenced to 18 months supervision and 150 hours of unpaid work.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) has now imposed a twelve month suspension on Nergui - the maximum suspension period that can be imposed.
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The Tribunal concluded that Nergui did not appreciate "the seriousness of his underlying conduct" and said "the wider public would be appalled at Dr Nergui’s actions.".
It stated: "The Tribunal further recalled Dr Nergui’s reasons for pleading guilty at the GlasgowSheriff Court. Dr Nergui stated that he ‘could either accept or try to defend [himself] in court, in a full hearing … [and that] it was not [his] intention to drag [his] family that had already been through all this … [to] further difficulties and trouble so it was much simpler to accept whatever XXX stated to the police’.
"The Tribunal concluded that Dr Nergui’s guilty pleas were primarily motivated by a desire to spare his family further distress rather than an appreciation of the seriousness of his underlying conduct. The Tribunal determined that Dr Nergui’s guilty pleas were therefore more relevant to remediation than insight."
The report continued: "The Tribunal also had regard to Dr Nergui’s evidence in which he suggested that conduct giving rise to his convictions had been ‘mischaracterised’. He further stated that ‘I was impaired; I did not have any insight then…I have as much insight now as I will ever have into this case.’
"In the circumstances, the Tribunal concluded that Dr Nergui possessed very little insight into his criminal behaviour."
Nergui was also condemned by the Tribunal for not showing "any level of remorse" and did not attempt to apologise for his behaviour, placing an explanation for his actions on "stress at work".
It said: "At no point during the course of the hearing, however, did Dr Nergui show any level of remorse. There was no attempt to apologise for his criminal behaviour. During the course of this evidence Dr Nergui explained that his criminal behaviour occurred when he was experiencing stress at work. When asked how he would cope with stress in the future, he was unable to provide a response to the Tribunal beyond ‘reading and writing’."
His suspension was put into place with immediate effect, with the MPTS stating "an immediate order would be necessary to maintain public confidence in the medical profession and to promote proper standards of conduct.".
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