The wife of a doctor who paid a prostitute for sex while on duty at a maternity hospital has allegedly vowed to stand by him.
Sheyi
Pemsel was forced to hear that her husband Rupert, a father of two, was
addicted to pornography and wanted to take his sexual obsession to the
next level during a tribunal earlier this week.
But
the 40-year-old GP is said to have forgiven the trainee anaesthetist
despite the incident being reported as happening while she was pregnant
with their second child.
Mrs Pemsel's decision was reported in The Sun after
Pemsel, who has apologised to his Nigerian-born wife, admitted he was
driven to message the prostitute after starting to view pornography 'in
increasing amounts'.
He
told the tribunal earlier this week: ‘It got to a stage where I was
watching more than I should have done. It was impacting on me doing
house duties and washing and things like that.’
Pemsel,
who has worn his wedding ring throughout the tribunal, also told the
hearing he had hired the prostitute between helping with emergency cesareans.
He said: ‘I did it because it seemed it was the natural progression from pornography to real life.‘It was something that I didn’t commit a lot of thought to. It was something that just happened.
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‘I
woke up that evening to go to a night shift and while looking at
pornography I decided to do it then and it was in no way planned. The
fact it was at the hospital did not at the time come in to it.
‘It
was not a factor I had considered important. It was merely that I was
there and it was a place to meet. There is nothing more to it than
that.’
The
incident happened over Christmas 2013 when Pemsel, who qualified in
2010, was working at the Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton.
He said he had arranged to smuggle the prostitute into the hospital by text message.
Among his messages, he told her: ‘This is naughty on my part so discretion would really be appreciated.’
During
the investigation, he inadvertently landed himself in even more hot
water by revealing he kept a photo of a patient’s intimate X-ray on his
mobile phone.
Pemsel,
who was reported to the General Medical Council, is appearing before
the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester.
He
told the hearing he was wrong to take a picture of the patient: ‘Now I
am totally and utterly undeniably aware it is inappropriate to take
images like that without somebody’s consent.’
Pemsel
was suspended during an investigation into his conduct by University
Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. He later resigned.
He
has since been working as a locum at a number of different hospitals,
most recently at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, where he
hopes to return.
Pemsel
said before the incident he had been under financial strain and
stressed from heartbreaking medical work with sick children in Uganda.
He
added: ‘I would like to apologise one last time to everybody involved. I
am extremely regretful about the impact this has had on the
profession.’
Pemsel,
who admits misconduct charges, could be struck off if the MPTS panel
decides his fitness to practice has been impaired. A ruling is expected
today.
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