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Consultant who was convicted of downloading images of child sexual abuse is struck off

BMJ 2020; 368 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m458 (Published 04 February 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;368:m458
  1. Clare Dyer
  1. The BMJ

A consultant in anaesthesia and critical care has been struck off the UK medical register after being convicted of downloading images of child sexual abuse.1

Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s online child sexual abuse and exploitation unit arrived at Richard Johnson’s Yorkshire home with a search warrant in February 2018, after he mistakenly uploaded an image to a social media site. …

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