LIVERPOOL, England - A doctor could be struck off after he admitted using his hospital computer to watch hardcore pornography. Professor Peter Davies, 70, an expert in tuberculosis, used his work computer after his wife put filters on his personal PC to stop him watching porn at home.
Police were called in after NHS officials checked his machine at the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital and found he had viewed images of someone having sex with a horse and a dog. A chief finance officer came across ‘inappropriate browsing activity’ in December 2018 and it was linked to Prof Davies’ computer so he was suspended before being dismissed for gross misconduct.
He said that he had looked at the images out of curiosity but admitted he had a problem. He received a police caution and was reported to the General Medical Council, which is set to take place today and could end his lengthy career in medicine. Prof Davies said that he had been addicted to pornography since he was 18 when he bought magazines as a youngster, and had been getting counselling at a sex addiction clinic.
He told the Medical Practitioners’ Tribunal Service: ‘In a way, throughout my adult life, since teenage years, I have had a problem with it. I used to buy magazines but it wasn’t until the internet came into being there was a possibility of more access.
Vicar sets himself on fire during first online coronavirus church service ‘As a result I would have been accessing porn at home and in 2010 I made a confession to my wife. I’m amazed the NHS trust had no means of finding out earlier in a sense and I’m grateful to that person who did. ‘In fact my wife has been magnificent through all this.
It gets easier the more people you talk to but the most difficult person to tell was my wife because I had been deceiving her for some years. She was wonderful.’ During the investigation he admitted ‘compulsively viewing pornography for a number of years’.
When asked if he viewed porn at home, he said: ‘No I do not. My wife is at home. She put a filter on all my computers, I have had this problem from before then. I had some counselling and I stopped for a period of two years.’ (FA)