A CONVICTED rapist who worked as a GP in Helensburgh has been struck off the medical register.

Khalid Jamal, 49, was sentenced to six years behind bars in 2018 for raping a teenager and sexually assaulting another woman.

His first victim, now aged 27, had been out with Jamal on a number of occasions when he attacked her at his flat in Great Western Road, Glasgow, after she refused to have him sex with him on Christmas Eve 2013.

Jamal raped his second victim, then aged 19, at his “cabin” in Balloch, between April and May 2016.

In 2019, the disgraced doctor failed in a bid to have his conviction quashed.

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) held virtual hearings in December, and in January of this year, to determine his fate in the profession, and the outcome has now been published online.

Initial concerns were raised with the General Medical Council (GMC) in October 2016 by Police Scotland, who were trying to trace Dr Jamal "as a matter of urgency given his occupation and the fact he may have access to vulnerable females".

Following his conviction at the High Court in Glasgow the tribunal ruled that his fitness to practise is impaired.

A report of the hearing says that Jamal called witnesses to give character evidence on his behalf, one of whom stated that "Dr Jamal was always helpful and was a man of good character", before adding that he "could not believe that Dr Jamal had committed such a heinous crime".

Jamal met his first victim on a dating site where he had misrepresented his age as 26 or 27 when he was in fact 41.

The report continues: "There can be no doubt that Dr Jamal’s behaviour and his conduct culminating in convictions for serious sexual offending, is serious, breaches good medical practice and undermines the public interest and public confidence in the profession.

"The tribunal considered that he has not acted with integrity nor justified the trust the public places in the profession.

"He has breached fundamental tenets of the profession ... and fellow practitioners would consider his conduct to be deplorable.

"The tribunal had no doubt that Dr Jamal’s convictions have brought the medical profession into disrepute."

In concluding the case, chair of the tribunal hearing, William Hoskins, decided that Jamal's erasure from the medical register was the "only necessary and proportionate sanction".