A disgraced doctor who molested a student nurse on a hospital ward and then tried to blame the incident on ‘cultural norms’ has been passed fit to treat patients again.
Married father-of-two Imran Qureshi, 44, grabbed the breast of the 21-year-old woman and told her he wanted an affair after he saw her as ‘sexually available’ because she had previous boyfr student
The student nurse, known only as Miss A, was said to be ‘shaken up and distraught’ after reporting how locum senior house officer Qureshi grabbed her chest for two seconds before trying to ‘make light’ of it and then becoming aggressive.
But although Qureshi admitted he had made a ‘misjudgement’, he said ‘cultural norms’ were different in the UK compared with his native Pakistan and he had failed to spot a proverbial ‘red light’ warning him to stay away from the victim.
She claimed she found it difficult to trust male colleagues following the incident and said it had affected her studies
