A 33-year-old doctor with a porn addiction who was imprisoned for using a camera to secretly record women taking shower and having sex, has been struck off from the UK's medical register.
From January to November 2020, Dr. Vinesh Godhania of Norwich browsed many pornographic websites more than 19,400 times, reported TDPel Media. His offences happened right from his college days in 2012 till he was arrested in 2020, according to Eastern Eye. He filmed women on a tiny camera that was hidden in an electric toothbrush.
He also downloaded his victims’ naked images and intimate chats from their accounts on iCloud. The disgraced doctor filmed his colleagues, housemates and the mother of a child patient. His victims included those who used the bathrooms of the houses he lived in. One of his victims was a patient who was filmed inside Basildon Hospital.
Godhania admitted to seven charges of voyeurism. He also admitted to eight charges of unauthorized access to computer material. Last year, West and Central Hertfordshire Magistrates’ Court sentenced him to two years and eight months of imprisonment, respectively. He has been put on the sex offenders’ register at St Alban’s Crown Court for 10 years.
After a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing on June 23, he was removed from the medical register. His sexual misconduct was serious and impacted the privacy and dignity of colleagues, patients and members of the public, Medical Practitioners Tribunal concluded. Its report said that the doctor's "offending behavior engaged all three limbs of the overarching objective and amounted to a significant breach of principles set out in GMP." It further read that the tribunal concluded that "given the seriousness, sophistication, scale and nature of Dr Godhania’s actions, his behavior was fundamentally incompatible with continued registration.”
Patients go to medical experts, but the impact of such incidents linger in the mind for a long time, said a victim impact statement. The statement further added that when you go to a hospital you are very vulnerable, "you naturally trust the professionals dealing with you and certainly do not expect this violation." The victim said, "I feel uncomfortable and unfortunately this incident will change my view of people in a position of trust and will stay with me for a long time."
