Vested interests and power blocks have a rather dirty habit of looking after their own ...
The often try to ensure that when of their followers or practitioners commits a crime or offence, they don't actually get the punishment that the rest of us might feel the matter deserves.
Looking After Their Own: The Dirty MP.
Keith Vaz the Labour MP, who offered to pay for the procurement of cocaine in order to fuel sex sessions with rent boys. Young men who he procured under the guise of 'Jim' the 'washing machine salesman'. He has not only escaped police prosecution (cocaine procurement is obviously not an offence, when paid for by an MP), but has also been let off the hook by the Commons Watchdog.
In December 2017, the office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, confirmed that it suspended the ongoing investigation in to Mr Vaz's behaviour 'for medical reasons'. So, Mr Vaz is fit enough for drug fuelled anal sex, fit enough to attend parliament and question Boris Johnson in December 2017, but not fit enough to go before the committee in the same month? ..... and they wonder why parliament and its inhabitants are held in such utter contempt. Its about time we took self regulation away from the MPs Commissioner.
Looking After Their Own: The Dirty Doctor.
Doctor Imran Rauf Qureshi, a 44 year old hospital doctor was apparently not satisfied with being a married man, and sexually assaulted a 21 year old student nurse (who was also a Muslim). He was convicted of the sexual assault in a Manchester court, but then appealed to the medical council to be allowed to carry on as a doctor.
Because he claimed, the assault was all a cultural misunderstanding. His defence was that as she had had previous boyfriends, he believed she was sexually available to him because of 'different cultural norms'. Its hard to credit this as any kind of defence in the 21st century UK, but the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service listened with straight faces.
No one on this tribunal questioned the doctor as to where in liberal Pakistan, its the cultural norm for women who have had a boyfriend, to be available for sexual affairs by married doctors. Or that grabbing their breasts was the pick up method in Pakistan. I'll tell them for future reference ... nowhere in Pakistan, is where. Who in their right minds would allow this man near any woman patient who might be touched or disrobed?
He was not struck off by the PC driven self interest group which govern medical practitioners, he merely got suspended for 12 months ... but it shouldn't be open to debate in any decent society, that a convicted sex offender, on the sex offenders register, will be allowed to practise medicine again .... Its about time we took self regulation away from the medical groups.
Looking After Their Own: Naughty Nurse.
Julie Ann Dawson, a nurse, hacked into a friends on-line shopping account, and then proceeded to run up a bill of more than £6,000 before she was caught. She also borrowed almost £6,000 from other colleagues (but she later paid most of that money back). Her friend/colleague only found out about the spending spree when she was harassed by debt collectors .... however the Nursing and Midwife's Council disciplinary committee, let Ms |Dawson keep her job at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, with just a three year caution. How she can be trusted again after betraying both friends and colleagues its hard to see... Its about time we took self regulation away from the medical groups.
Looking After Their Own: Paedophile Policeman
Police Constable Adam Cox has avoided prison for indecent images of children and bestiality. He pleaded guilty at Norwich Crown Court to four counts of possession of indecent images, but it also came out that he had created an alter ego called 'Emily Whitehouse' in order to exchange explicit chat with three men on-line. He actually found indecent images on-line of a Canadian woman, who had committed suicide at the age of 21, and passed them off as being "Emily" ... On having his Emily persona website, Cox reportedly said: "It's me. It's not me. It's madness, a way of escaping reality." He only got a 20 month suspended sentence. But he was sacked .... at least the police still have some standards.
What About Naughty Lawyers Looking After Their Own?
To be fair on the legal profession, who I often knock, the number of solicitors struck off is actually mind boggling. So I can't really have the dig at them that I anticipated, but my oh my how naughty they are.
However members of the law firm Leigh Day, who pursued “baseless” allegations that British troops tortured and murdered Iraqi detainees, managed to escape further sanction, after the courts overturned attempts by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to prosecute them .... Leigh Day said it had set up a team specialising in regulatory and disciplinary issues, to help other firms and lawyers against the SRA (on no win no fee terms?).
Perhaps the courts are not quite as impartial as they should be?
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| Some Groups Seem To Look After Their Own |
The often try to ensure that when of their followers or practitioners commits a crime or offence, they don't actually get the punishment that the rest of us might feel the matter deserves.
Looking After Their Own: The Dirty MP.
Keith Vaz the Labour MP, who offered to pay for the procurement of cocaine in order to fuel sex sessions with rent boys. Young men who he procured under the guise of 'Jim' the 'washing machine salesman'. He has not only escaped police prosecution (cocaine procurement is obviously not an offence, when paid for by an MP), but has also been let off the hook by the Commons Watchdog.
In December 2017, the office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, confirmed that it suspended the ongoing investigation in to Mr Vaz's behaviour 'for medical reasons'. So, Mr Vaz is fit enough for drug fuelled anal sex, fit enough to attend parliament and question Boris Johnson in December 2017, but not fit enough to go before the committee in the same month? ..... and they wonder why parliament and its inhabitants are held in such utter contempt. Its about time we took self regulation away from the MPs Commissioner.
Looking After Their Own: The Dirty Doctor.
Doctor Imran Rauf Qureshi, a 44 year old hospital doctor was apparently not satisfied with being a married man, and sexually assaulted a 21 year old student nurse (who was also a Muslim). He was convicted of the sexual assault in a Manchester court, but then appealed to the medical council to be allowed to carry on as a doctor.
Because he claimed, the assault was all a cultural misunderstanding. His defence was that as she had had previous boyfriends, he believed she was sexually available to him because of 'different cultural norms'. Its hard to credit this as any kind of defence in the 21st century UK, but the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service listened with straight faces.
No one on this tribunal questioned the doctor as to where in liberal Pakistan, its the cultural norm for women who have had a boyfriend, to be available for sexual affairs by married doctors. Or that grabbing their breasts was the pick up method in Pakistan. I'll tell them for future reference ... nowhere in Pakistan, is where. Who in their right minds would allow this man near any woman patient who might be touched or disrobed?
He was not struck off by the PC driven self interest group which govern medical practitioners, he merely got suspended for 12 months ... but it shouldn't be open to debate in any decent society, that a convicted sex offender, on the sex offenders register, will be allowed to practise medicine again .... Its about time we took self regulation away from the medical groups.
Looking After Their Own: Naughty Nurse.
Julie Ann Dawson, a nurse, hacked into a friends on-line shopping account, and then proceeded to run up a bill of more than £6,000 before she was caught. She also borrowed almost £6,000 from other colleagues (but she later paid most of that money back). Her friend/colleague only found out about the spending spree when she was harassed by debt collectors .... however the Nursing and Midwife's Council disciplinary committee, let Ms |Dawson keep her job at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, with just a three year caution. How she can be trusted again after betraying both friends and colleagues its hard to see... Its about time we took self regulation away from the medical groups.
Looking After Their Own: Paedophile Policeman
Police Constable Adam Cox has avoided prison for indecent images of children and bestiality. He pleaded guilty at Norwich Crown Court to four counts of possession of indecent images, but it also came out that he had created an alter ego called 'Emily Whitehouse' in order to exchange explicit chat with three men on-line. He actually found indecent images on-line of a Canadian woman, who had committed suicide at the age of 21, and passed them off as being "Emily" ... On having his Emily persona website, Cox reportedly said: "It's me. It's not me. It's madness, a way of escaping reality." He only got a 20 month suspended sentence. But he was sacked .... at least the police still have some standards.
What About Naughty Lawyers Looking After Their Own?
To be fair on the legal profession, who I often knock, the number of solicitors struck off is actually mind boggling. So I can't really have the dig at them that I anticipated, but my oh my how naughty they are.
However members of the law firm Leigh Day, who pursued “baseless” allegations that British troops tortured and murdered Iraqi detainees, managed to escape further sanction, after the courts overturned attempts by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to prosecute them .... Leigh Day said it had set up a team specialising in regulatory and disciplinary issues, to help other firms and lawyers against the SRA (on no win no fee terms?).
Perhaps the courts are not quite as impartial as they should be?
Looking after their own. The Lusty Lord. Lord Lester was due to be suspended from the House of Lords over charges of sexual misconduct but the Lords voted 101 to 78 to send his case back to the standards committee.
ReplyDeleteAnother group looking after their own.
Good Spot. I didnt see that story. Thanks for the comment.
Delete"Self regulation" is an oxymoron.
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly a compressed paradox that its the crooks who decide the punishments.
DeleteThat link about solicitors struck off is a bit of a surprise. It's amazing how many people who are meant to uphold the law are as bent as a den of thieves.
ReplyDeleteI guess Rumpole of the Bailey is long gone ... thanks for the comment.
DeleteShortly after this post it was reported that a Doctor Sarah-Louise Addis , who was employed by Airedale General Hospital in Keighley, West Yorkshire, was convicted of Serious Medical Misconduct, by the Medical Practitioners Committee, but was not struck off.
ReplyDeleteHer offences?
It was claimed that she had blackmailed her landlord, falsely accusing him of abusing his daughter (another man had been convicted of this), and threatening to expose him to the police if he didn't return her tenancy deposit. The landlord was later interviewed by the police, but no further action was taken against him as he was wholly innocent.
She was also accused of accessing the landlords daughters medical records for her own interests without permission. The landlord told the panel: “Dr Addis walked past. She started slagging my daughter off saying she wasn’t a good Catholic girl because she’d an abortion, which I knew nothing about.
Now if you or I did this, and were found guilty of serious misconduct at work, its most certainly instant dismissal, and possible police prosecution for blackmail, as well as possibly breaching the Data Protection Act ... but because the tribunal considered that Dr Addis had acted while "anxious" about her tenancy dispute, she can carry on as a doctor. Looking after their own, you betcha.
MPTS Decision:
https://www.mpts-uk.org/hearings-and-decisions/medical-practitioners-tribunals/dr-sarah-louise-addis
Mini Update:
ReplyDeleteThe Dr Imran Qureshi GMC ruling of just one year suspension, was varied to a series of conditions on his registration, when his case was reviewed in 2019 by the Medical Practitioners Committee. In 2020 he tried via his lawyers to either remove or amend the restrictions, including 'close supervision', a workplace mentor and reporter, a maximum three-months for locum posts and having a chaperone. He claimed that the restrictions meant that he had not been in clinical practice for four years.
But the GMC said that he still needed to demonstrate that he could work within appropriate professional boundaries. However the review panel agreed to reduce the supervision levels from 'close' to 'standard,' and also dropped the need for an educational supervisor. They agreed that he could also secure locum posts of over three months duration. But said that he will still require a chaperone and workplace reporter