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Harrop MPTS Hearing

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 19/10/2021 16:18

I thought this may be of interest:

www.mpts-uk.org/hearings-and-decisions/medical-practitioners-tribunals/dr-adrian-harrop-nov-21

The tribunal will inquire into the allegation that from 10 May 2018 to 23 November 2019, Dr Harrop inappropriately used his Twitter account to post tweets that were offensive and/or insulting and/or inappropriate in nature and some of which were intended to intimidate.

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BoreOfWhabylon · 15/11/2021 11:57

[[The Adrian Harrop Tribunal
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Allegation 14 (G) proposed amendment; to extend the date from April 19, to 30th June 2020. Allegation 14 (E), GMC seeks to withdraw that charge.]]

Signalbox · 15/11/2021 11:56

Reasons must be that witnesses want privacy.

Signalbox · 15/11/2021 11:55

GMC asking for hearing to be heard in private! Oh please no don't agree to this. It's public interest for it to be publicly heard.

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 15/11/2021 11:48

Ooft, those charge sheets are brutal. I don't see he can wiggle put of this, the charge sheets just set out provable fact - what possible defence does he have?

I suppose he could do a Webberley and say he was acting for the greater good.

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Datun · 15/11/2021 11:46

@RoyalCorgi

I very much doubt C is on the legal team, not being appropriately qualified for one thing.

My guess is Harrop will go for the "it's banter on social media" line. I notice the delightful fragrant Joss Prior is attempting to defend him on the basis that the injured parties are just Twitter "gobshites", as if people who are vocal on Twitter don't have the right to a private life or not to have threats made against them by a medical doctor.

Well Harrop was motivated by the fact that he thought those women deserved it. I'm not sure that his supporters just repeating that is going to help him.
RedDogsBeg · 15/11/2021 11:44

I notice the delightful fragrant Joss Prior is attempting to defend him on the basis that the injured parties are just Twitter "gobshites", as if people who are vocal on Twitter don't have the right to a private life or not to have threats made against them by a medical doctor.

Talk about scraping the barrel, and if that's the case then it works both ways surely?

Artichokeleaves · 15/11/2021 11:44

That all seems pretty cut and dried. And unjustifiable, outside of 'but they deserved it for having other views to me'.

RoyalCorgi · 15/11/2021 11:40

I very much doubt C is on the legal team, not being appropriately qualified for one thing.

My guess is Harrop will go for the "it's banter on social media" line. I notice the delightful fragrant Joss Prior is attempting to defend him on the basis that the injured parties are just Twitter "gobshites", as if people who are vocal on Twitter don't have the right to a private life or not to have threats made against them by a medical doctor.

RedDogsBeg · 15/11/2021 11:39

@MonsignorMirth

I don't think there's any reason at all to believe that any of the witnesses or anonymous ppl mentioned have anything to do with either legal team.
One would hope not.
MonsignorMirth · 15/11/2021 11:34

I don't think there's any reason at all to believe that any of the witnesses or anonymous ppl mentioned have anything to do with either legal team.

PigeonLittle · 15/11/2021 11:33

How many days is this hearing?

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MonsignorMirth · 15/11/2021 11:33

It's probably wise not to put anyone's real names on here even if they are/were on publicly viewable tweets.

RedDogsBeg · 15/11/2021 11:30

@FindTheTruth

GMC allegations sheet
Oof, that's hard hitting. We can all guess who C is and if they are on the legal team supporting Harrop that is surely a conflict of interest.
BoreOfWhabylon · 15/11/2021 11:28

Fingers crossed the Daily Mail have a reporter there. This deserves the widest audience possible.

PronounssheRa · 15/11/2021 11:27

@CatsOperatingInGangs

Who wonder who could C be? Grin
It's a mystery 🤣
BoreOfWhabylon · 15/11/2021 11:27

Will they call witnesses to relate how Harrop's actions have affected them?

CatsOperatingInGangs · 15/11/2021 11:25

Who wonder who could C be? Grin

PronounssheRa · 15/11/2021 11:22

So they have included the threat he made re Louise Moody, I was worried that one would be out of scope of the hearing because the dates.

If I recall that particular tweet was reported to the police.

Signalbox · 15/11/2021 11:21

*at stage 2

Signalbox · 15/11/2021 11:21

@BoreOfWhabylon

I wonder if he will address the tribunal directly? They really should see his pompous verbosity in full flow.
It'll be interesting to see if he makes any admissions or whether he tries to defend the tweets in some way. My guess is that he will admit the allegations and not take the stand at stage 1. Then at stage he will take the stand to say how he is sorry, it was out of character, he was trying to stand up for LGBT people and overstepped and he will never repeat such behaviour again.
BoreOfWhabylon · 15/11/2021 11:13

I wonder if he will address the tribunal directly? They really should see his pompous verbosity in full flow.

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 15/11/2021 11:11

"designed to intimidate"

Crikey, that's quite an allegation against a doctor, isn't it? Never mind 5 times over.

Signalbox · 15/11/2021 11:04

So looks like there's 4 witnesses.

FindTheTruth · 15/11/2021 10:55

GMC representative is Mr Giles Powell (GP) and Dr Harrop’s representative is Mr Ryan Donoghue (RD).

Hearing adjourned until 11.30am

FindTheTruth · 15/11/2021 10:54

GMC allegations sheet continued

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Harrop MPTS Hearing