A FORMER Leighton Hospital doctor has been struck-off the UK medical register after groping a junior colleague.

Dr Ahmad Arsalan Tahir left his victim feeling 'like utter s***' and 'violated' after grabbing her breasts and forcing himself against her several times.

He ‘initiated the sexual contact’ by asking personal questions such as when she last masturbated, had sex, and if she liked grinding against men in nightclubs.

The laparoscopic surgeon also sent his victim 37 WhatsApp messages in less than two hours, including ones pestering her to eat dinner in his car, parked outside her flat.

The incidents are said to have taken place on a single day in January 2021, during and after a shift at Leighton Hospital in Crewe. 

Dr Tahir also worked for the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust at the same time, from March 2020 until March 2021.

A Medical Practitioners Tribunal on Tuesday, May 9, found these, and most of the other, sexual harassment claims against Pakistan-trained Dr Tahir had been proved, 'on the balance of probabilities'.

Representing the General Medical Council at the tribunal on Friday, May 12, barrister Robin Kitching said: “Such behaviour was fundamentally incompatible with continued registration, and that members of the public or the profession would be appalled if Dr Tahir was allowed to practise again in the near future.”

In her evidence, the victim said Dr Tahir pinned her against the wall, held her by the shoulder and hips, thrust into her, kissed her on the right side of her face, and grabbed her breasts twice. 

She sent messages describing what happened to friends, saying ‘she could have screamed’, and had to hide in a staff toilet.

She said it left her feeling ‘like utter s***’, ‘so gross’, ‘violated’, and that she was ‘stewing all evening and all night’.

The tribunal accepted Dr Tahir had 'taken advantage of a power imbalance between himself and the victim, and had initiated the sexual contact by sexualising their conversation'. 

It also accepted he had 'no real understanding of the seriousness of his conduct, and refused to stop, even when the victim asked him to'.

Dr Tahir returned to Pakistan shortly after the allegations were made, where he has worked as an assistant professor and consultant surgeon at Kuwait Teaching Hospital since May 2021.

A spokesperson for Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: "The trust does not tolerate this unacceptable behaviour and the individual is no longer an employee.

"The trust has been supporting the colleague involved since the incident was reported."