FGM doctor kept extreme porn

A DOCTOR who wrote official guidelines on caring for victims of female genital mutilation has admitted possessing extreme pornography depicting violent acts against women.

Manish Gupta, 47, pleaded guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court to possessing 14 prohibited images of a child, one video and two photographs depicting extreme pornographic violence and one bestiality film.

In 2015, as co-chairman of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ (RCOG) guidelines committee, Gupta cowrote guidance on caring for FGM victims. Gupta worked at Whipps Cross Hospital, in north-east London, as an obstetrician and gynaecologist.

Melissa Garner, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: ‘Possessing prohibited and extreme pornographic images is against the law and, where there is evidence to do so, the CPS will prosecute those who break the law.’

Gupta will be sentenced on November 16.