Psychiatrist who broke his wife’s ankle is suspended for 12 months

A psychiatrist who was convicted of four assaults on his family, one of which broke his wife’s ankle and left her in a cast for eight weeks, has been suspended for 12 months by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.

Empee Vithayathil, a specialist in the psychiatry of learning disability, was convicted at Cambridge Crown Court last year of three counts of common assault and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. …