Oswestry GP denies sex session claim

A married family doctor from Oswestry was secretly recorded during a 16-month affair with a female patient, a disciplinary panel heard.

The patient told the General Medical Council hearing that she recorded sex sessions at the surgery on her mobile phone.

Dr Simon Robinson, who denies misconduct over the alleged affair with the patient, has agreed overstepping the mark with her but denies a sexual relationship took place, the hearing heard.

He said the phone tapes were fabricated, the hearing at the GMC in Manchester heard on Friday. The hearing was told that their encounters always stopped short of full sexual intercourse.

At the hearing the patient, who has not been named, said she decided to use her mobile phone to record the sounds of two of their alleged sex sessions, one at his surgery and one at her home, when she began to feel used.

She told the hearing Dr Robinson, who is in his 40s, kissed her when she went for a routine check-up in July 2009. The two are alleged to have met two or three times.

The GMC tribunal was told she became unhappy with the relationship and confided in her adult sons. They had been appalled and suggested she record one of their sessions as evidence against him.

Robin Kitching, counsel for the GMC, said although the patient had been a willing participant Dr Robinson's behaviour had been dishonest and a breach of good medical practice.

He said the doctor accepted he overstepped the mark in terms of doctor-patient boundaries but vehemently denied a sexual relationship took place.'

The hearing continues.