BRADSHAW: ‘UTTERLY REPUGNANT’ FLYING DOCTOR STRUCK OFF OVER AFFAIR

A flying doctor who tried to frame his mistress by secretly recording a fake assault was kicked out of the profession today (Fri) for his ‘utterly repugnant’ behaviour.

Steven Bradshaw, 33, claimed to be a single man as he embarked on a passionate eight month affair with a colleague at the Civil Aviation Authority.

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 heard.

But their relationship soured when the woman, referred to only as Miss A, became suspicious and challenged him over his wife, who he had only married a year earlier.

Bradshaw told her his marriage was in tatters and he was consulting divorce lawyers while he was still living in the family home.

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

Bradshaw was found guilty of misconduct after a steries of charges against him were found proved at a GMC hearing in central London.

The panel must now decide what sanction to apply.

Panel chair Roland Doven told him: ‘Not only does your conduct over the material times demonstrate a complete lack of insight, it demonstrates the reverse – a determination to escape the natural and proper consequences of earlier misconduct.

‘We endorse the view that public confidence in the profession would undoubtedly be damaged by misconduct of the nature and degree established by its findings.

‘Your dishonest actions were egregious, dishonourable and disgraceful.’

Bradshaw claimed Miss A had been harassing and stalking him, but the panel found this was not supported by the evidence.

He and Miss A began a relationship after he started working at the CAA in March 2007, the GMC heard.

She said he sent pictures of himself in bed as they enjoyed romantic trysts 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 radshaw’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, 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 Dr Bradshaw a number of texts, begging him to tell her the truth about his relationship with his wife.

As the affair soured, Bradshaw asked her to come to his office before subjecting her to an ‘interrogation’ which he secretly recorded on his MP3 player before trying to fake an assault.

‘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 in evidence.

She was later suspended for work on June 12 – four days before her birthday – after Bradshaw made a 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 a CAA investigation eventually found he fabricated allegations and tried to pervert justice.

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

He admitted 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.

But he 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.

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

The hearing continues.

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