Hossam Metwally (pictured), 60, caused multiple organ failure in Kelly Wilson, 33, after feeding her drugs through a cannula during a series of exorcism ceremonies
A hospital anaesthetist will be jailed for a 'substantial' period of time after almost killing his girlfriend by injecting her with noxious substances as part of a 'perverted' twist on an Islamic exorcism ritual.
Hossam Metwally, 60, caused multiple organ failure in Kelly Wilson, 33, after feeding her drugs through a cannula during a series of ceremonies, which he had learnt to perform from watching videos on Youtube.
Judge Jeremy Richardson QC said Friday that it was the 'most bizarre' trial he has seen in his 41-year career.
The jury had been shown extracts from 200 clips the doctor had recorded over his four-year drugging campaign, which mainly took place at his home in Grimsby, north-east Lincolnshire.
The videos showed Miss Wilson being injected with unknown substances via a tube attached to her chest as Metwally chanted verses from the Quran.
The father of four was performing his own take on the Ruqya ritual, which typically sees an Islamic white-gloved therapist or 'healer' place a hand on a person's head while reciting verses from the Quran.
They will sometimes use honey and water as a purification ritual to cleanse the soul and body of sins - but never drugs.
On Thursday, following an eight-week trial, the jury took just two hours to find Metwally guilty of endangering Miss Wilson's life through the unlawful and deliberate intravenous administration of anaesthetics or sedative agents, and drug possession offences.
On Friday, Judge Richardson lifted a reporting restriction, which had prevented reporting of the trial, after Metwally admitted two further charges of voyeurism.
The defendant - who worked at the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby - will be sentenced next month and was remanded in custody.
Judge Richardson told Metwally: 'In 41 years of experience in the criminal justice system of this country I have never been involved or presided over a more bizarre trial than this one.'
Judge Richardson said the medic was convicted on 'quite frankly overwhelming evidence', and said: 'It is a shocking circumstance that a doctor, a medical professional, should find himself in the dock awaiting sentence on such a serious criminal charge.
The jury had been shown extracts from 200 clips the doctor had recorded over his four-year drugging campaign, which mainly took place at his home in Grimsby, north-east Lincolnshire. The videos showed Kelly Wilson (pictured), 33, being injected with unknown substances via a tube attached to her chest as Metwally chanted verses from the Quran
The trial heard how Metwally (pictured) had been performing exorcisms on Miss Wilson to 'rid her of evil spirits'. He claimed he was helping her 'out of kindness'
'Please be under no misapprehension that the sentence of imprisonment in this case is inevitably going to be of some substance.'
The trial heard how Metwally had been performing exorcisms on Miss Wilson to 'rid her of evil spirits'. He claimed he was helping her 'out of kindness'.
Metwally said he had contacted an Islamic association and was referred to someone who practised Ruqya in Liverpool.
He watched and learned about the ceremony on YouTube, including the concepts of the evil eye and black magic.
He also watched examples of it on Facebook.
