TV surgeon ‘punched daughter for calling his new wife a wild whore’
A surgeon who appeared on the TV show embarrassing Bodies threatened to kill his daughter after she called his young lover a ‘wild whore’, a medical tribunal was told.
Professor Basil Ammori, 53, flew into a rage and punched economics student Huda, now 22, in the face, it was claimed.
They clashed in 2014 over his decision to leave his gP wife for a single mother more than 20 years his junior who worked as a nurse at his practice.
The obesity surgeon accused Miss Ammori and her two brothers of putting details of girlfriend Hayley Pritchard – whom he has since married – on an internet site carrying personal adverts, prompting men to contact her for sex.
Ammori, who specialises in weight loss surgery, allegedly began sending abusive texts to his ex-wife, Dr Amira Al-Abadi, 53, claiming their children were ‘evil creatures’ and he wanted nothing more to do with them.
When Miss Ammori went to ask her father to stop sending the upsetting messages, he shouted that her mother was a ‘wild bitch’, she said.
Miss Ammori retaliated, saying his lover was a ‘wild whore’.
Ammori punched her ‘very hard’, causing mild concussion. she later suffered headaches and eye problems. The
‘He was pulling me by my neck’
surgeon, who appeared on the Channel 4 show embarrassing Bodies performing a stomach operation, was arrested but police took no action.
Details of the bitter family feud emerged at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal service in Manchester after Ammori was reported to the general Medical Council.
Miss Ammori, who is studying International Business and Finance at the university of Manchester told the misconduct hearing that she wanted nothing to do with her father or his 30-year-old second wife.
she said: ‘He was my father for 18 years. He still is technically my father but I don’t think a normal father does this to his children. He was punching me very, very hard.’
Ammori met Dr Al-Abadi at university in their home country, Iraq, in 1980. They moved to Bolton after their marriage in 1987 but separated acrimoniously in February 2013, more than a year after he began his affair with mother-of-two Miss Pritchard, following allegations of domestic violence.
In september 2014, Ammori, who works at salford royal Hospital, discovered his lover’s name had been posted on classified ads website Craigslist, prompting men to contact her for sex, the tribunal heard. In a series of text messages to his ex-wife, Ammori accused his daughter and her brothers Mohannad, 26, and Ahmed, 23, of being behind the post.
He wrote: ‘They are not my children, these are evil creatures and I regret having them as my children. I never want anything to do with any of you again.’ In another text he accused Dr Al-Abadi of being ‘an evil, destructive person’, adding: ‘You are a selfish woman. Don’t ever try to communicate with me again.’
He warned that their children would ‘carry this burden with them until the day of their judgment’.
Miss Ammori denied she or her siblings were responsible for the Craiglist post but decided to confront her father at his new home.
‘He asked me what I was doing there and I told him I didn’t like the way he spoke to my mother,’ she said. ‘He said, “Your mother is a wild bitch” and started to scream. Then I responded to say, “You’re the one who left for a wild whore”.
‘I didn’t shout or raise my voice. That’s when my dad went on to beat me. I screamed when he was beating me, screaming for him to stop. He was pulling me back by my neck and carried on punching me in the face and before I left he said, “I will kill you”.’
Miss Ammori alleged she had witnessed similar violence by her father towards her mother and brothers during her childhood. Dr Al-Abadi told the tribunal: ‘This is the way he used to hit me.’
Last night, outside the hearing,
‘Married mistress in Islamic wedding’
Dr Al-Abadi claimed her ex-husband had beaten her in front of the children but the accusation had been retracted each time police were called as it would ‘bring shame’ on the family.
He had already had two affairs during their 27-year marriage, she said – with a young doctor and a secretary, both in their twenties, she added. He had initially denied his affair with Miss Pritchard despite sharing a hotel room with her on expenses-paid conference trips to Bristol and London.
In May 2012, he admitted the affair after it emerged he had married Miss Pritchard in an Islamic wedding, she said.
He left the £700,000 marital home but was allowed back after he claimed to have divorced his mistress. However, in early 2013, Dr Al-Abadi found out he had been renting a four-bedroom house for her in Worsley, salford.
Ammori married Miss Pritchard last year. she now works as his personal assistant and they live in a £1million house in Cheshire.
Dr Al-Abadi said: ‘There were always two sides of my ex-husband’s personality – he could very charming and sweet, but he also had a short-temper and a violent side.
‘He’s shown no remorse because he thinks he’s protected by his religion. He tried to convince me I should let him have another wife. He said god had given him the right to marry Hayley.’
Ammori denies any wrongdoing. The tribunal hearing continues.