A&E doctor struck off over ‘hugs’

AN A&E doctor has been struck off the medical register after thrusting his crotch against two female colleagues’ legs and ‘hugging’ them inappropriately.

Mohammed Yasin was working as a locum at New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton when he sexually assaulted two hospital workers during a night shift in April 2016.

A tribunal heard the Birmingham doctor pushed his crotch into the leg of one colleague during a ‘hug’, then later carried out a similar assault on another staff member. A tribunal found that the 31-year-old had “abused his position as a doctor, preying on junior colleagues.”

Dr Yasin defended his actions by claiming what the women had felt was innocent. “The only explanation I’ve got is my phone and key fob,” he said. “I don’t even find these girls attractive.”

He admitted hugging the 21-year-old student nurse and the health care assistant during the shift, saying he wanted to “fit in” at the hospital.

The tribunal, chaired by Mr Richard Tutt, found Dr Yasin’s behaviour amounted to serious misconduct and struck the doctor from the medical register.

Mr Tutt said in the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service report : “The Tribunal has determined that Dr Yasin abused the special position of trust a doctor occupies and demonstrated sexually motivated predatory behaviour towards two junior female colleagues in the workplace, who were vulnerable by virtue of Dr Yasin’s respective seniority. Having sexually assaulted one, within a period of approximately two hours, Dr Yasin persisted in his sexually motivated predatory behaviour when he then sexually assaulted the other.

“His behaviour towards the more vulnerable of the two complainants was particularly persistent as he continued in his actions twice after she had moved away from him.”