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Trainee who paid for escort sex while on duty is allowed to resume practice after suspension

BMJ 2017; 356 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j453 (Published 26 January 2017) Cite this as: BMJ 2017;356:j453
  1. Clare Dyer
  1. The BMJ

A trainee anaesthetist who had sex with an escort while on call at a maternity ward will be allowed to resume practice next month when he completes his 10 month suspension from the medical register.

Rupert Pemsel, 33, became the subject of lurid headlines in the tabloid press over his December 2013 tryst with escort Leanne Kennedy, 29, in the on-call room at Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton.

Kennedy and an unnamed younger man …

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