A GP who carried out a sickening sex attack on a student nurse at a Stirling hotel after contacting her through a fake dating profile has been struck off.
Married doctor Manesh Gill was convicted of raping a teenager after luring her to a hotel bedroom on December 8, 2018, and was jailed for four years for the brutal assault in 2022.
The dad-of-three, who maintains his innocence, sought out the woman on Tinder, giving a false name and posing as a 23-year-old to arrange a meeting.
Gill, from Edinburgh, who was working for NHS Lothian at the time of the attack, was brought before the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) this week in Manchester, where it was decided his fitness to practice has been impaired, and he was immediately erased from the medical register to “protect” patients.
Tribunal chair Angus Macpherson said: “Dr Gill’s offending behaviour was morally unacceptable and seriously undermines patients’ and the public’s trust and confidence in the medical profession.
“The tribunal considered that a sanction of erasure is the only sanction that would protect patients, mark the seriousness of the conviction, maintain public confidence in the profession, the regulator and the regulatory process.”
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Gill met the young woman at the hotel bar where they had drinks before she tried to leave via a visit to the toilet. But the predatory doctor lied and claimed the toilets were out of order in order to entice her back to a room he had booked in advance.
She used the bathroom in his room before Gill plied her with a mug he claimed contained pink gin, which she later told the court had been “very strong”. He took a Viagra tablet as the victim began feeling “tired and heavy”, before subjecting her to a prolonged and horrific rape ordeal during which she drifted in and out of consciousness.
Hotel night porters found her sitting outside “distraught” and “in tears”, unwilling to go back inside. Police examiners found a number of injuries to her body after she reported the assault.
The MPTS said Gill also had shown “no remorse, reflection or remediation” in regards to his behaviour. They feared there was a risk of repetition.
Mr Macpherson continued: “The sexual assault was not limited to a single act of penetration; it included several such acts as well as a variety of other sexual acts, none of which were consensual.
“Further, the tribunal noted that Dr Gill engaged in an element of deception in that he led Ms A to believe that the toilets on the ground floor of the hotel where they had met not were available for her use and, in that context, invited her up to his bedroom.
“Behaviour such as this breached a fundamental tenet of the profession, namely that doctors should be trustworthy and act openly, honestly and with integrity. The tribunal further concluded that by his actions and subsequent conviction, Dr Gill will have brought the profession into disrepute.”
Crown prosecutors lodged an appeal against Gill’s prison sentence, arguing that the four-year jail time did not reflect the “gravity” of the offence or the fact it was premeditated. However, their appeal was rejected despite Lady Dorrian expressing the sentence was lenient, but added that it was “not excessively so”.
