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July 26, 2014
What if he were White?
A doctor who will remain on the Sex Offender Register until 2018 for three assaults against hospital staff has been allowed to return to work.
Dr Benjamin Obukofe, 46, was given a six-month suspended prison sentence at Leicester Crown Court for the assaults, which he carried out at the Spire hospital, in Oadby, between 2006 and 2007. He was also placed on the sex offender register for seven years.
Obukofe had been suspended from working as a doctor since the allegations emerged in 2009. But a fitness to practice panel which reviewed his case at the Medical Practitioners’ Tribunal Service, in Manchester, has now cleared him to return to work.
The doctor will be subject to 12 conditions for three years, which will keep him closely monitored by the General Medical Council.
Obukofe can only work within the NHS under the close supervision of a consultant.
But he will not be subject to restrictions requiring him to use chaperones to examine women, because he attacked female staff members rather than patients.
At a review hearing last year, Obukofe maintained his innocence, despite a failed appeal against his conviction in 2011.
Giving evidence, he said: “Let me be clear. I do not assert that I have breached the law.
“I do not assert that I have committed criminal behaviour. I do not assert that I have committed sexual assault against these two people.”
He did not give evidence at the latest hearing, but the panel, chaired by Dr Harvey Marcovitch, decided Obukofe had learned his lesson and was fit to return to work.
Dr Marcovitch said: “In all the circumstances, the panel is satisfied that the salutary lessons that you have learned from the consequences of your misconduct and conviction, as well as the absence of any suggestion of similar behaviour, either before your conviction or subsequently, make it highly unlikely that the actions which led to your conviction will be repeated.
“The panel is satisfied that this sanction, together with its finding of impairment, which is significant in itself, will convey to the public, to the profession, and to you, that the behaviour which led to your conviction was unacceptable but that, in all the circumstances, you should be allowed an opportunity to return to carefully monitored and restricted practice.
“It considers that, in your case, return to carefully supervised practice would not damage the reputation of the medical profession in the eyes of the public.”
The tribunal heard that Obukofe has arranged a clinical attachment with Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Trust.
He will have to attend a review hearing towards the end of his three years’ conditional practice before he is allowed to work unrestricted.
One of Obukofe’s victims, a ward trolley hostess, was 17 when he brushed up against her and touched her bottom.
An administration worker was subjected to two sexual assaults when Obukofe wrapped his arms around her placing his head on her neck and kissed her cheek on another occasion.
The medic denied the charges, but was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault at Leicester Crown Court in April 2011.
Judge Simon Hammond, sentencing, told Obukofe his offences were at the lowest level, but were aggravated by the fact they happened at work.
He was cleared of another four similar charges involving two nurses and a ward clerk.
