A top Scots doctor who battered his wife has avoided being struck off by medical watchdogs as he continues to maintain his innocence.
Fraser Inglis, the founder of Glasgow Memory Clinic, will be free to work again after a two-month suspension for assaulting his ex-wife Elizabeth at their former home in Dunblane in 2010.
Inglis, 57, admitted his criminal record to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, as well as failing to inform the General Medical Council of proceedings against him.
But the dad was adamant he’s not guilty of the crime and blames a medical expert in his case for his conviction.
Details of the hearing, published yesterday, said the GMC’s position is that Inglis has shown “no insight” into his conviction and maintains there has been a “miscarriage of justice”.
GMC lawyer Gerard Doran told the tribunal Inglis had shown “no empathy” for his wife.
A report said: “Mr Doran submitted that Dr Inglis’s actions have brought the medical profession into disrepute.”
Inglis was found guilty in 2016 of trapping his then wife’s arm in a door, pushing her over and hitting the side of her head repeatedly with his foot.
The couple’s daughter told Stirling Sheriff Court Inglis flew into a “blind rage” when his wife, who had been drinking and was “volatile”, questioned why she was watching TV instead of doing her homework.
Elizabeth said she was left looking “like a battered wife” after the attack. Inglis got 100 hours’ community service.
The medic was not at the virtual hearing last week after calling for a postponement because he wanted to attend in person when it was safe to do so after Covid-19.
The hearing went ahead.
His fitness to practise was found impaired due to his conviction but not impaired for failing to disclose the fact he’d been charged, which came to light in the Press.
An email sent by the medic’s lawyer to the tribunal said Inglis “finds violence or aggressive behaviour by a man towards a woman particularly abhorrent”.
It added: “He’s never wished to bring the profession into disrepute for any reason. He finds it appalling he is now in a position where such a suggestion can be made.”
The tribunal said there was no evidence to suggest a significant risk of repetition. It said there had been a “significant lapse of time” since the events took place and that the behaviour has not been repeated.
It ruled Inglis’s conduct was “not incompatible” with continuing to practise as a doctor.
