Osborne’s psychiatrist brother had affair with vulnerable patient
THE psychiatrist brother of George Osborne had an affair with a vulnerable patient – and threatened her when she complained, a hearing was told.
Dr Adam Osborne, 39, admitted starting a two-year relationship with the married mother-of-two after she came to him for treatment.
But when she later complained he told her there would be ‘consequences for her family’ if she persisted.
He sent her an email saying that if she did not retract her complaint to the General Medical Council (GMC) he would say she had ‘seduced’ him.
Married Dr Osborne now faces being struck off the medical register after a disciplinary hearing was told of the affair yesterday. He made the admissions in writing to a hearing of the Medical Practitioner’s Tribunal Service in Manchester, which he did not attend.
The tribunal is expected to make a decision on his fitness to practise today.
He was immediately suspended by the GMC last year when the allegations came to light and resigned from the private Elitemed Ltd practice he co-owns with his wife Rahala Noor, a plastic surgeon.
It is not the first time Dr Osborne, the youngest brother of the Chancellor, has been embroiled in scandal.
In 2010, he appeared before the GMC for prescribing drugs to a cocaine-addicted prostitute who was also his lover.
Following his second serious transgression, he could be struck off after admitting a series of charges including engaging in a ‘sexual and emotional relationship’ with the patient who was ‘ vulnerable’ due to her ‘mental ill health.’
Yesterday’s hearing was told the woman had gone to his London practice to seek help for serious psychiatric issues and was undergoing a course of treatment. He also admitted contacting the patient by email in an attempt to make her withdraw her complaint and threatening ‘consequences for her family if she did not’.
The panel also heard Osborne admitted making an ‘accusation that Patient A had seduced’ him as part of a series of emails. However, he denies his fitness to practice was impaired. Following the 2010 case he was suspended for a total of two years after a panel heard he gave a £150-an-hour call girl anti-psychotic drugs and falsified parts of the prescription.
She later revealed she had regular sex sessions with Dr Osborne – who at the time was separated from his girlfriend, Miss Noor – and he paid the £795-a-month rent on her flat in Manchester so he could have ‘sex on tap.’
Osborne was also disciplined for prescribing contraceptive pills to Miss Noor, a strict Muslim who became his wife in 2009, and an anti- smoking drug to an unnamed family member. When he was eventually allowed to practise again he began a private practice in an attempt to rebuild his reputation.
Osborne, who qualified as a doctor in 2003, is five years younger than the Chancellor and one of four sons born to Sir Peter Osborne – who cofounded wallpaper company Osborne and Little.
He and Bangladeshi-born Miss Noor, 37, met as students and he converted to Islam, taking the name Mohammed, before their wedding. In the wake of the allegations Osborne, who lives in a £1.6million house in Shepherd’s Bush, West London, stepped down as a director of Elitemed.
The practice, which has offices in Marylebone, recently filed accounts which showed it was worth just £551 and owed creditors £7,337.
The couple each own 50 per cent of the company.
‘Emotional relationship’