Family doctor, 44, keeps his job despite being caught trying to groom '13-year-old girl'
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Dr Hafeez Awan, 44, swapped hug emojis, online kisses and a string of inappropriate messages with the youngster - not realising she was an undercover detective investigating online paedophile gangs.
At the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, the GP in Leeds faced being struck off after being found guilty of sexually motivated misconduct - but escaped with a nine months suspension after a panel said he had not engaged in any 'sexually explicit conversations.'
During several hours of conversations over a 16-day period in an internet chatroom and on WhatsApp, Awan, a GP in Sheepscar, Leeds, West Yorkshire gave himself the user name: 'Medic333 and said: 'R u single?' and 'R u at school?' when told the girl was 13.
His subsequent messages on the Lycos chat logs read: 'Mwah hugs for u. I want huggs too. Do you have a number? I want to call you and and listen to ur voice.'
Awan turned down an illicit rendezvous following the messages but was reported to the General Medical Council over the communications.
He will face a review hearing next August.
The GP had denied wronging claiming he never thought the girl was 13 and only carried out chatting to establish her 'true age.'
He claimed he had logged into the chatroom to 'de-stress' due to the ongoing effects of a robbery he fell victim to in 2013. He has since emigrated to Canada when he has opened his own medical practice.
Panel chairman Mrs Sharmistha Michaels said: 'Dr Awan has made some efforts to reflect on his behaviour and has started to put measures in place to ensure that this conduct is not repeated. He said no longer uses chat rooms and has found other methods to 'de-stress'.
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