... his wife 40, is said to be standing by him despite the incident
Dr
Rupert Pemsel (pictured), 32, avoided being struck off on Monday after
having sex with a call-girl at a Southampton maternity hospital
'tribunal hears Porn-addicted anesthetist, 32, is 'an excellent doctor'
Rupert Pemsel paid prostitute for sex between emergency caesareans
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The father of two young children admitted being addicted to pornography
He told a tribunal how he wanted to take his sexual obsession to next level
His wife Sheyi, 40, is said to be standing by him despite the incident
Tribunal decided striking him off would be 'depriving' public of good doctor
He told a tribunal how he wanted to take his sexual obsession to next level
His wife Sheyi, 40, is said to be standing by him despite the incident
Tribunal decided striking him off would be 'depriving' public of good doctor
A married doctor who paid for sex with a prostitute while on duty at a maternity hospital was told he could keep his job today.
Dr Rupert Pemsel, 32, spent 40 minutes in an on-call room in Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton with a 29-year-old woman.
The medic, whose wife is a GP, blamed
the decision on an addiction to Internet pornography and stress from
helping ill children in Uganda.
At a Medical Practitioners Tribunal
Service hearing in Manchester, Pemsel’s barrister Edward Pleeth even
proposed no action should be taken against the father-of-two because he
is an ‘excellent doctor’.
But the tribunal instead decided to
suspend trained pilot Pemsel from the medical register for ten months
for the ‘sordid sexual encounter’.
His wife, Sheyi Pemsel, 40, is thought to have vowed to stand by her husband's side after he apologized to her.
Trainee anaesthetist Pemsel, from
Winchester, stared straight ahead as tribunal chairwoman Lisa Smith
told him: 'In the tribunal’s view, you have put your personal desires
above your professional responsibilities.
'The tribunal considered the
circumstances in which you brought an escort to the hospital premises
where you engaged in a sordid sexual encounter whilst on duty.
'The tribunal considers that the
suspension of your registration would mark the seriousness of your
abhorrent behavior. Indeed, it is of the view that public confidence
in the profession would be seriously undermined if a lesser sanction
were to be imposed.'
Clarifying why Pemsel wasn’t struck
off, she added: 'The tribunal considered whether your conduct and behavior warrant red a higher sanction, that of erasure.
'However, it has taken into account
that you are committed to continuing to practice medicine and it would
not benefit the public to be deprived of the services of a clinically
good doctor.'
The hearing heard that Pemsel was due
to begin a night shift at the Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton on
December 29 2013 when he decided to book escort Leanne Kennedy, 29.
In between helping with emergency
caesareans, Pemsel - still in his hospital scrubs - let Kennedy into
the hospital and took her to a private room where they had sex.
His
wife, Sheyi Pemsel, is thought to be standing by her husband Rupert
(pictured together at a wedding in 2009) despite him admitting he paid a
prostitute for sex while on duty
He later told the tribunal that the fact the tryst took place in the hospital, ‘did not come into it’, at the time.
But his plan backfired when associates of the prostitute threatened to expose the romp if he didn’t pay up £10,000.
Fearing for the safety of himself, his
pregnant wife Sheyi, 40, and their son, he came clean about his sordid
escapades and reported the threats to the police.
The trainee anaesthetist smuggled prostitute Leanne Davies (pictured) into the Princess Anne Hospital
The family were moved from their home
in Compton, Winchester, and Pemsel went with cops to a Hilton hotel in
Basingstoke to set up a sting on the blackmailers.
But over three days holed up, Pemsel
showed the officers photographs of a patient’s radiograph on his iPhone
which depicted a bottle up the man’s rectum.
Concerned, one of the officers informed
his superior who later took the decision to report Pemsel to the
General Medical Council.
He later tried to claim he took the
photo because of its ‘clinical interest’, but the tribunal ruled that
Pemsel had only stored the image for his own amusement.
On behalf of Pemsel, Mr Pleeth said Pemsel would have to start his training again if he were to receive any suspension.
'Suspension would be devastating for Dr
Pemsel and the public would be disadvantaged by the loss of a highly
competent doctor,' he said.
Following the incident, Pemsel resigned
from the Princess Anne Hospital and later took up a post as a locum at
the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.
He is set to resume his post when he completes his suspension period.
Kennedy, also known as Leanne Davies, and a younger man were arrested and pleaded guilty to blackmail in July 2014.
Kennedy avoided jail after receiving a two-year suspended sentence but the man, who cannot be named, was jailed for 42 months.
Earlier trying to justify his behavior, Pemsel said financial difficulties, two minor car accidents
and medical work helping children in Uganda contributed to his state
of mind at the time of the incident.
But the main factor was his growing addiction to Internet porn and desire to take it to the next level.
He said: “I have reflected about the
impact this has had on my family, my extremely supportive wife, my
colleagues at the hospital I was working at at the time, the
Deanery... And they are aware of my deepest regret at the impact this
has had on them.
I am extremely regretful about the impact this has had on the profession and about the issues of confidentiality and misconduct.
'I would like to apologise one last time to everybody involved.'
When asked to comment after the hearing, he added: 'Politely - no.'
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