BRADSHAW:FLYING DOCTOR TRIED TO FRAME MISTRESS BY FAKING ASSAULT

A flying doctor tried to frame his mistress by faking an assault in a secret recording after she challenged him over his wife, a hearing was told today (Tues).

Medical officer Steven Bradshaw, 33, claimed to be a single man as he embarked on a passionate eight month affair with the woman, who was a colleague at the Civil Aviation Authority, it is said.

The amateur pilot whisked her to Paris in his private plane, discussed marriage, and began planning a £3,600 break to Mauritius, the General Medical Council has heard.

Dr Bradshaw later told his lover that his marriage was in tatters and he was consulting divorce lawyers, when he was still living with his wife.

When his mistress became suspicious and begged him to tell her the truth, he allegedly threatened to ‘get her sacked’ and tried to fake an attack in a recording of the two arguing.

‘He was saying things like “Get of me, get off me” to fake an assault,’ said the woman, identified only as Miss A.

‘At some point, right at the end of the conversation, I realised he was recording.’

Miss A set she realised she had been ‘set up’ when Dr Bradshaw told bosses that she had been harassing him.

‘I thought Dr Bradshaw at that stage had managed to set everything up so that if he made any complaint about me now I would be accused of harassing him,’ she said.

‘I realised what that recoding was about, it was so obvious that he was trying to say that I was harassing him on that recording.

‘I knew that I could not tell anyone the truth about what had happened.’

She was suspended after he compained he and his wife were being harassed, but a CAA investigation found that he had fabricated allegations and tried to pervert justice.

He now faces being banned from the profession over the allegations that he ‘maliciously and dishonestly’ fabricated claims against his lover.

The GMC has heard how Dr Bradshaw and Miss A began a relationship after he started working at the CAA in March 2007.

She said he sent pictures of himself in bed as they enjoyed romantic trusts in hotels and planned trips to Europe in his plane, thought to be a £20,000 two-seater Grumman Traveller.

Miss A said she hacked Dr Bradshaw’s email account in summer 2007 after becoming suspicious when he stopped meeting her for dates, and discovered he had married a year earlier.

When confronted with the evidence of his wife, Bradshaw said he was planning to leave his wife and in March the following year, he said he was speaking to divorce lawyers.

But Miss A was suspicious after spotting that he had planned a trip to Paris on flight maps left on his desk.

She eventually hired a private detective to find out what was going on, and sent Bradshaw a number of texts, begging him to tell her the truth about his relationship with his wife.

As their relationship soured, Bradshaw asked her to come to his office before subjecting her to an ‘interrogation’ which he secretly recorded on his MP3 player, she said.

It was during this conversation that he tried to fake an assault, she said.

‘At one point during the recording, he said “I’m going to take this upstairs, I’m going to take this to HR and get you sacked”,’ she said.

On May 8, Miss A was told that Bradshaw had complained that she was spending too much time with him, and was warned to stay away from him.

‘I felt very upset that he had set me up – he had made a report on something I had not done,’ she said.

‘I begged him not to ruin my career and not to make any false allegations of harassment.’

She was later suspended for work on June 12 – four days before her birthday – after Dr Bradshaw made a further complaint alleging she had been harassing him and his wife.

He was suspended in the same month after Miss A told investigators they had an affair, and later resigned, tough the CAA eventually found he fabricated allegations and tried to pervert justice.

Dr Bradshaw, who lives with his wife in Clapham, south London, denies that he was ever in a relationship with Miss A.

He accepts that he told the CAA that Miss A was harassing him and his wife, had assaulted him, pursued him home and claimed she had an intimate with a patient.

The doctor denies sending a letter to the Daily Telegraph about the CAA’s s response to the volcanic ash cloud purporting to be from Miss A.

He further denies that his actions were ‘dishonest, malicious and intended to pervert the CAA investigation’.

The hearing continues.
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