GP struck off for having sex at surgery with 'vulnerable' patient

The career of a family doctor lay in ruins last night after he was struck off for having a secret four-year affair with a patient.

The patient had gone to Dr Keith Fraser, 53, for treatment for her severe anxiety and mental health problems.

Instead the married father-of-six bombarded the vulnerable woman with up to 20 phone calls a day demanding sex.

He sent her lurid text messages asking her to 'bonk' him and gave her expensive gifts before taking her to a hotel room where they had sex.

After the affair was exposed, Dr Fraser moved out of their £500,000 home and his wife began divorce proceeding.

Their six children, all aged in their teens and 20s, have refused to talk to their father and Dr Fraser is now living alone in a bedsit in Bradford, West Yorkshire, where he is working as a £350-a-week lorry driver.

Yesterday his humiliation was complete when he was struck off by the General Medical Council (GMC) after a panel ruled his fitness to practise had been impaired.

The hearing was told the woman had visited Dr Fraser at his surgery in 1988 after her ex-boyfriend broke her nose.

He continued to treat her for depression but in 2003 he launched his sexual advances while she felt suicidal, weighed just six and a half stones, was taking anti-depressants and calling the Samaritans almost every day.

The woman, identified only as Miss A, told the Manchester tribunal Dr Fraser attacked her in a hotel room in York.

But despite the alleged attack, she embarked on a four-year affair with the GP because he had not had sex with his wife for six years and she felt sorry for him.

The GP showered his secret lover with gifts including up to £40,000 in a series of cash loans including a £8,000 for a Volkswagen Bora car.

He also bought her a £400 pair of diamond earrings, would call her 'babe' and made lewd remarks about her body.

During the hearing Miss A said: 'He had always been a touchy-feely doctor and always use to call me babe. But the pats began turning into hugs and strokes.

'It was a friendship that went horribly wrong on his side. I was scared when he hugged me that he wouldn't let go.'

The affair was exposed in February 2007 when Miss A contacted a nurse at the surgery in Bradford to say something was not right.

But the hearing was also told Miss A had simply wanted to take money from the wealthy doctor and had planned to sue him.

Miss A's estranged sister - known as Miss B - said her sister had worn low-cut tops when she attended appointments with Dr Fraser.

'She just said she wanted to get the money from him, she just wanted to sue him,' said Miss B. 'She just kept saying she wouldn't have sex with him because he was too ugly and hairy.'

Miss B said her sister told her she was going to sue Dr Fraser after receiving a phone call from him asking her to perform a sex act on him.

Dr Fraser said he was flattered and surprised by the attentions he received from Miss A when she visited him.

He said: 'I have been aware from a very young age that I am not God's gift to womankind and I guess I was surprised by the attraction.

'I just did not expect anybody would want to be that attracted to me. I believe in total Miss A received somewhere in the region of £37,000 to £38,000.

'She came in to see me and see if I would give her quite a large sum, tens of thousands of pounds, and that would be all she'd need. I explained to her I didn't have that amount of money and I wasn't prepared to give her any more.

'She said something along the lines of, "Blackmail is an ugly word but I have to consider whether to go down that road."'

Patrick Conway of the GMC panel told him: 'Although the panel does not accept that Patient A entered into the relationship in order to entrap you, it does accept that, as the relationship progressed, she took advantage of your generosity for financial gain.

'But your actions fell seriously short of the standards of behaviour the public are entitled to expect from doctors.'