Dr Osman Hajahmed, who worked at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, was arrested in Plumstead on April 15 last year after a woman called 999 and told police he struck her with a stick multiple times.
Dr Hajahmed, 45, from Thamesmead, pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm and was given a community order last year.
At a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing last month Dr Hajahmed argued that the victim provoked the attack and that while he accepted hitting her it was just “one mistake”.
But the panel said it was a “sustained attack” and that Dr Hajahmed does not understand the gravity of what he did.
It was therefore decided that he should be banned from practicing medicine in the UK.
‘Violence as a means to control’
Dr Hajahmed, who qualified as a doctor in Sudan in 2005, was working as a junior clinical fellow in general medicine at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust at the time of the offence.
The MPTS hearing was told that on April 15 the victim phoned the police to report that she had been assaulted by Dr Hajahmed.
When police arrived she reported injuries to her arm, elbow, top of her head and back
Dr Hajahmed was arrested and two days later he appeared at Bexley Magistrates’ Court where he pleaded guilty to the charge on a full facts basis.
On May 30 last year he was sentenced to a one-year community order including rehabilitation activities and a £50 fine.
Dr Hajahmed represented himself at the MPTS hearing held in February to consider his future in the medical profession.
He claimed the incident took place after he had been exposed to “substantial provocation” by the woman, who had hit him for up to 10 minutes.
Dr Hajahmed said whilst his actions were wrong and he did not blame the victim, they both had “shared responsibility” for what happened.
He said that he was not a risk to the public as this was out of character and it was a “one-off mistake”.
Dr Hajahmed claimed he is a totally different person now and was remorseful.
In response, Ms Emma Gilsenan, representing the General Medical Council (GMC), said: “The evidence points against a momentary lapse of judgment. On any assessment of the photographs of the injuries, the victim was hit multiple times with a wooden stick so hard to cause cuts, scrapes and bruises.”
Ms Gilsenan claimed that Dr Hajahmed was seeking to minimise his actions and this reflected a lack of proper insight into his behaviour.
She pointed out that a pre-sentence report had found that “Dr Hajahmed used violence as a means to control”.
The MPTS concluded that Dr Hajahmed’s insight was lacking in depth.
“The Tribunal accept that Dr Hajahmed has apologised and used words to express remorse. He has some insight. His insight is largely self-focussed, and he has persistently failed to demonstrate insight into the seriousness of his conviction on others including the public,” the MPTS said.
It was decided that his name should be erased from the Medical Register.
