Oswestry doctor found guilty of sex encounters with patient

A married family doctor from Shropshire who was secretly recorded having sexual encounters with a patient was this afternoon found guilty of a 16-month affair.

Dr Simon Robinson looked exchanged stunned looks with his wife Catherine as the General Medical Council disciplinary panel delivered its verdict after a week-long hearing.

The 44-year-old father of two had denied having the affair and the panel was still today deciding whether he should be struck off.

Robinson, who was based at the Cae Glas Surgery in Oswestry at the time, would call the woman his 'Number One Patient' while she kept a secret diary of their meetings, the hearing was told.

But the panel heard the GP was reported after the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons but is in her 40s, used her mobile phone to make two recordings of them.

The hearing had been told their encounters, during an affair from July 2009 to November 2010, always stopped short of full sexual intercourse.

This afternoon the panel, sitting in Manchester, rejected Robinson's claims the two tapes had been tampered with. Panel chairman Professor Denis McDevitt said despite reservations about Patient A's evidence, they accepted Robinson had engaged in a sexual relationship with her.

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