Doctor originally suspended for “one-off” rape now struck off

A consultant who was suspended from the UK medical register after a tribunal decided that he was guilty of a “one-off” rape has been struck off by a new tribunal.1The decision came after the regulator, the General Medical Council (GMC), appealed the original ruling to the High Court.Aloaye Foy-Yamah, 57, was an acute care consultant at Blackpool Victoria Hospital when he raped a young female friend while she was staying at his home in 2018. He expressed contrition and concerns about a possible prison sentence in recorded phone calls with her family.Foy-Yamah admitted sexual assault in these calls but not rape. Lancashire police investigated the case, but no charges followed.Foy-Yamah continued working after this, rising to interim department head during the covid pandemic, until 2024, when his case was heard by a medical practitioners tribunal. Using its “balance of probabilities” standard of proof instead of the “beyond reasonable doubt” standard…