Doctor jailed over exorcism on partner

A “RELIGIOUS fanatic” doctor has been branded a “disgrace to the profession” as he was jailed for 14 and a half years for nearly killing his partner during an exorcism.

Hossam Metwally, 61, made dozens of video recordings of himself administering fluids through a cannula to Kelly Wilson while chanting as part of a “dangerous perversion” of the Islamic Ruqya ritual. His partner, now 33, was left close to death at Metwally’s home in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, where she was found on July 4 2019, the morning after the ritual.

She was rushed to hospital in a deep coma and on the brink of cardiac arrest with multiple organ failure.

Metwally, an anaesthetist who worked at the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital and ran a pain clinic from his home, met Ms Wilson when she was a student nurse eight years ago. He denied injecting anaesthetics into Ms Wilson during an eight-week trial at Sheffield Crown Court but admitted further counts of voyeurism against two female patients following his conviction.

The court heard yesterday that he took pictures and videos of the women, without their knowledge and undressed, when they attended his clinic for treatment. He also altered some of the images to make them appear indecent and erotic.

Metwally had a “vast stock of drugs” at his home, including ampoules of ketamine, propofol, fentanyl and Diazemuls. The trial heard he “fed” Ms Wilson’s drug addiction and administered potentially lethal anaesthetic drugs to perform Muslim exorcism rituals known as Ruqya – a valid practice that an imam told the court would never involve drugs or sedation.

Extracts from 200 clips recorded by Metwally over four years were shown to the jury, including Ms Wilson strapped to a bed and in a bath.

Judge Jeremy Richardson QC, the Recorder of Sheffield, labelled Metwally a “religious fanatic” who had displayed “not a shred of remorse”.