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| Practitioner | Profession | Offence | Outcome | Tribunal | Jurisdiction | Decision date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter William Omant | Nurse | Child pornography (three counts) | Suspended for 12 months, and a 12-month good behaviour bond from the judge. | Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | 2016-09-19 |
| Alexander Black | Doctor | CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. Black was convicted of possessing comprised in total, 45 images and 67 movies containing child exploitation material, including material depicting children engaged in sexual activity. | 3 months suspension. The tribunal stated that its purpose was not to punish Dr Black and noted that there had already been profound personal and professional consequences for him. | Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | 2016-06-07 |
| James Hutchinson | Nurse | CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. Possession of over 46,000 images and movies containing child abuse material. | Unable to nurse for 6 years. | Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | 2018-12-12 |
| Grant Burrows | Nurse | Aggravated indecent treatment of a child under 12 | Four-year disqualification finishing in 2023. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Brisbane, QLD, Australia | 2020-09-08 |
| Aran John Bowden Denford | Doctor | CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. In 2008, Mr Denford was charged by New Zealand Police with possession of child pornography. The New Zealand Court of Appeal later dismissed the charges after evidence gathered by the Crown was ruled inadmissible and the practitioner was discharged without conviction. In August 2013, the New Zealand Customs Service seized Mr Denford’s laptop for forensic analysis, which revealed that more than 3,800 images had been deleted. 95% of those images were female children or teenage models who were naked or semi-naked and in sexual poses. | Disqualified for two years. | State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia | Perth, WA, Australia | 2016-06-22 |
| Phillip Dibbs | Nurse | CHILD RAPE, PORNOGRAPHY AND SEXUAL ASSAULT. Dibbs was convicted on his own guilty plea of multiple offences including maintaining an unlawful relationship with a child under 16, indecent treatment of a child under 16, rape, sexual assault and transmitting child pornography. | Disqualified for 10 years because he didn’t offend at work. He’ll be back as a nurse in 2024. AHPRA: “None of the victims were patients of his, and the conduct did not occur within a professional setting”, so he can come back. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Brisbane, QLD, Australia | 2015-07-21 |
| Edgard Ramirez | Nurse | CHILD EXPLOITATION CHARGES | Prohibited for five years from engaging in employment in any health service where he has access to or contact with any child. | Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | 2021-03-12 |
| Allan Hindley | Nurse | CHILD PORNOGRAPHY | Two-year suspension for accessing child exploitation material. | State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia | Perth, WA, Australia | 2019-05-07 |
| Don Zhou | Chinese Medicine Practitioner | CONVICTED OF RAPING A PATIENT. The judge stated that this offence was ‘far less serious than many other offences of rape’. | Disqualified for 15 years. | South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Adelaide, SA, Australia | 2020-05-06 |
| Terrence Williams | Podiatrist | Aggravated sexual assault of a patient | Suspended for three years and backdated to 2011. | Tasmanian Health Practitioners Tribunal | Hobart, TAS, Australia | 2014-10-21 |
| George Alexander Freeman | Nurse | ATTEMPTED MURDER | 15-year disqualification. | South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Adelaide, SA, Australia | 2021-02-11 |
| Blair Douglas Sudell | Nurse | Charges of grievous bodily harm, assault and deprivation of liberty | 4-year suspension, COMPLETED. | State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia | Perth, WA, Australia | 2016-06-12 |
| Shanin Alam | Doctor | GROSS INDECENCY CHARGES of two female patients. | Ordered to complete further training. | Health Professional Review Tribunal (Northern Territory) | Darwin, NT, Australia | 2016-03-02 |
| Peter McAllister | Doctor | HE KILLED A HEALTHY PATIENT. And AHPRA described it as “A GP anesthetist has been reprimanded for a serious lapse in professional standards that amounted to professional misconduct”. | Received a “reprimand” and a bit of time out.. AHPRA state “The tragic and preventable death of a healthy young woman, of itself, should be more than sufficient deterrence to any practitioner”. | Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | 2021-01-21 |
| Stephen Spring | Psychologist | Hiring a hitman via his patient | No suspension at all. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Brisbane, QLD, Australia | 2015-11-13 |
| Chamari Rasika Denuwanthe Liyanage | Doctor | KILLED HER HUSBAND | Disqualified for five years. | State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia | Perth, WA, Australia | 2020-12-29 |
| Mario Athinodorou | Doctor | Multiple counts of sexual misconduct | He’ll be back in just over a decade. | South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Adelaide, SA, Australia | 2020-05-20 |
| Harpeet Singh | Nurse | Multiple counts of sexual misconduct with patients on multiple occasions | 20-month suspension, from 2014, so obviously back in the field as a predator again now. | Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | 2014-12-24 |
| John Brewer | Nurse | MULTIPLE OFFENCES AND CONVICTIONS. 21 instances of theft, including theft of animals and medications, four instances of stalking, six instances of intentionally damaging property, three instances of aggravated cruelty to an animal, one instance of burglary, one instance of failure to store ammunition correctly, and five instances of possessing a drug of dependence. Three instances of making a false document to the prejudice of others, one instance of reckless conduct endangering serious injury, two instances of recklessly causing injury, two instances of false imprisonment, and two instances of intentionally causing injury. | He remained practising until 2017, had his license cancelled for 3 years. | Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | 2017-07-04 |
| John Barry Myers | Doctor | MULTIPLE SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGATIONS. Complaints of sexual abuse, in different states from 2004 to 2010. | Disqualified for 5 years, and now free to continue sexually abusing patients. | State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia | Perth, WA, Australia | 2015-04-20 |