A GP who was jailed for indecently assaulting women as he carried out medical examinations has been struck off the medical register.
Stephen Cox, 65, was found guilty last year of 12 charges on seven patients while working at a practice in Bracknell, Berkshire, between 1988 and 1997, and jailed for 22 years.
On Thursday, a Medical Practitioners Tribunal decided to remove him from the medical register.
It said that the offending was so serious it was “fundamentally incompatible with continued registration”.
Judge Sarah Campbell said Cox was the “worst kind of sexual predator” and had assaulted vulnerable women he thought would be less likely to complain.
The tribunal said there were a number of “aggravating factors” to his offending, specifically the “repeated and serious nature of Dr Cox’s offences which took place over a long period of time, involving multiple women and a child”.
It also said Cox’s victims were vulnerable and that he abused his position of trust.
“The Tribunal concluded that erasure was the only appropriate and proportionate sanction to impose in this case,” the judgement said.
“The Tribunal considered that public confidence in the profession would be undermined, and it would be failing to uphold all three limbs of the overarching objective were any sanction less than erasure imposed on Dr Cox.”
Cox previously worked in Wokingham, Burton-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Derby, Leicestershire, Telford and West Sussex.