A FORMER doctor at Leighton Hospital left a junior colleague feeling 'like utter s***' and 'violated' after grabbing her breasts and forcing himself against multiple times.

Dr Ahmad Arsalan Tahir also made her feel uncomfortable by asking personal questions such as when she last masturbated, had sex and if she like grinding against men in nightclubs.

The laparoscopic surgeon also sent his victim 37 WhatsApp messages in less than two hours, including ones pestering her to eat dinner in his car, parked outside her flat.

A Medical Practitioners Tribunal on Tuesday, May 9, found these, and most of the other, sexual harassment claims against the Pakistan-trained Dr Tahir had been proved, 'on the balance of probabilties'.

The incidents are said to have taken place on a single day in January 2021, during and after a shift at Leighton Hospital in Crewe. 

Dr Tahir also worked for the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust at the same time, from March 2020 until March 2021.

The tribunal looked at evidence from interviews with the victim, messages she sent to friends afterwards, bleeper reports, security badge movement records, CCTV footage from the hospital, and evidence from Dr Tahir himself.

In her evidence, the victim said Dr Tahir had said he could feel the difference between fake and artificial breasts; his worst nightmare was erectile dysfunction; and when having sex, he always put a woman’s pleasure before his own.

She added he'd pinned her against the wall, held her by the shoulder and hips, thrust into her, kissed her on the right side of her face, and grabbed her breasts twice. 

He did not stop immediately when asked to, she said.

She sent messages describing what happened to friends, saying ‘she could have screamed’, and had to hide in a staff toilet.

She said it left her feeling ‘like utter s***’, ‘so gross’, ‘violated’, and that she was ‘stewing all evening and all night’.

When considering the evidence before them, the tribunal ‘took into account the good character of Dr Tahir, an experienced senior doctor who has worked in a variety of medical roles and does not have any history of regulatory intervention’.

They concluded his fitness to practise medicine is ‘impaired’ by his ‘sexually motivated conduct’ toward a junior colleague, but are yet to decide what sanctions to impose.   

Dr Tahir returned to Pakistan shortly after the allegations were made, where he has worked as an assistant professor and consultant surgeon at Kuwait Teaching Hospital since May 2021.

A spokesperson for Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: "The trust does not tolerate this unacceptable behaviour and the individual is no longer an employee.

"The trust has been supporting the colleague involved since the incident was reported."