Doctor who smeared a grieving family as ‘racist’ loses job fight
A DOCTOR who failed to spot a patient’s fatal cancer has been banned from medicine after falsely accusing the victim’s family of being “racists”.
Robert Jenyo, 53, was sued for negligence over 60-year-old Patient A’s death in 2007.
In 2015 he was struck off for falsely accusing Patient A’s son, himself a medic named in evidence only as Dr AB, of racially abusing him.
Nigerian-born GP Jenyo had been working in Sale, Greater Manchester.
This year, Jenyo went back to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester to get his doctor’s licence back. He admitted lying when claiming Dr AB had used racist language and told him to go back to “his own country” in a desperate attempt to “get away with” his blundering. His appeal has now been thrown out as it was revealed Dr AB has still to receive any apology from Jenyo for his hurtful lies. Tribunal chairman Lee Davies said: “Dr Jenyo did not consider the impact making false allegations of racism may have had on Dr AB professionally and personally. As a minimum, he could have drafted letters of apology to Patient A’s family, Dr AB and to his colleagues.”
Jenyo was reported to the General Medical Council after Patient A died, despite them repeatedly complaining of having shoulder and back pain.
In 2010 the family sued Jenyo for medical negligence and two years later a settlement of £30,000 was agreed without any admission of liability.
At his 2015 tribunal, Jenyo claimed all misconduct charges were “racially motivated”.
In his latest hearing, he said of those lies: “I was stressed and trying to cover up things.
“I used the allegations of racism as a front to get away with it. I was completely wrong.”