A DRUNKEN CASUALTY DOCTOR REELING HOME AFTER DRINK

A DRUNKEN CASUALTY DOCTOR REELING HOME AFTER DRINKING
MORE THAN EIGHT PINTS OF BEER HEAD BUTTED A CABBIE – AND WAS
FINED #100 TODAY {FRI).

RUGBY PLAYING DOCTOR MICHAEL THOMAS LEFT THE TAXI DRIVER
NEEDING MEDICAL TREATMENT AFTER CLAIMING HE HAD BEEN ‘TAKEN FOR
A RIDE’.

SOUTHWARK CROWN COURT HEARD DR THOMAS HAD BEEN TO AN
ANNUAL RUGBY CLUB DINNER AND INDULGED IN A DRINKING BINGE.

THE DISGRACED DOCTOR TOLD THE COURT: ‘I HADN’T BEEN OUT FOR
THREE MONTHS BECAUSE I WAS STUDYING FOR MY EXAMS AND
UNFORTUNATELY AT RUGBY CLUB DINNERS PEOPLE DO TEND TO OVER
INDULGE.

‘ WHEN DR THOMAS LEFT THE DINNER AT THE REGENTS
PALACE HOTEL HE HAILED A CAB TO TAKE HIM TO GRAYS INN ROAD.

BUT TROUBLE FLARED AFTER THE DOCOR CLAIMED THE CABBIE
HAD TAKEN A FAR LONGER ROUTE THAN HE NEEDED TO.

‘AS TAXI DRIVER SOLLY SAUL WOUND DOWN HIS WINDOW TO TAKE
THE FARE DR THOMAS HEAD BUTTED HIM AND GRABBED HIM BY THE COLLAR
OF HIS SHIRT,’ SAID MR JOHN BLAIR-GOULD PROSECUTING.

DR THOMAS TOLD THE CABBIE: ‘I HAVE LIVED IN LONDON A
LONG TIME AND NO WHICH WAY YOU HAVE GONE LETS JUST CALL IT
QUITS.

‘
AFTER ASSAULTING THE CABBIE IN THE EARLY HOURS OF MAY 17
THIS YEAR DR THOMAS STAGGERED AWAY AND MR SAUL, 38, OF HEENE
ROAD, MIDDLESEX, RADIOED FOR HELP SAID COUNSEL.

WHEN POLICE OFFICERS ARRIVED AND QUESTIONED DR THOMAS
WHO WAS WORKING IN THE CASUALTY DEPARTMENT OF THE EDGEWARE
GENERAL HOSPITAL HE SAID: ‘THE TAXI DRIVER WAS UNREASONABLE AND
THE FARE EXCESSIVE.

‘
THE 26 YEAR-OLD DOCTOR ADDED:’I DON’T REMEMBER WHAT
HAPPENED WHEN I GOT OUT OF THE CAB BECAUSE UNFORTUNATELY I WAS
DRUNK.

‘
DR THOMAS, 26, OF ORCHARD AVENUE, RAYLEIGH , ESSEX WAS
FOUND GUILTY OF CAUSING MR SAUL ACTUAL BODILY HARM AND MAKING
OFF WITHOUT PAYMENT.

FINING THE DOCTOR #150 AND ORDERING HIM TO PAY #1,000
COSTS JUDGE COOKE SAID : ‘YOU ARE A PERFECTLY RESPECTABLE
PROFESSIONAL MAN WHO UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD NEVER HAVE
BECOME INVOLVED.

‘
HE ADDED: ‘IN MY OPINION THIS WAS ENTIRLEY OUT OF
CHARACTER AND I WOULDN’T EXPECT IT TO HAPPEN AGAIN.

THE BRITISH
MEDICAL COUNCIL WOULD BE EXTREMELY HARSH SO FAR AS THE OFFENCE
IS CONCERNED IF THEY INTERFERED WITH A PROMISING CARRER BECAUSE
OF IT.

‘

ENDS
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