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A porn addict doctor who was jailed for secretly filming women having sex and taking showers through a tiny camera hidden in a toothbrush has been struck off the medical register.
Dr Vinesh Godhania, from Norwich, accessed pornographic and other sexually explicit websites more than 19,400 times over an 11-month period between January and November 2020.
Evidence also found he hacked into victims' iCloud-based accounts to steal intimate and sexual images to trade and post online.
The victims included a patient filmed at Basildon Hospital and a further 17 people using bathrooms and toilets at his homes, while Dr Godhania also stole data from the iCloud accounts of more than 100 individuals - including 23 colleagues.
The offences spanned his entire medical career from 2012, when he was still a medical student, through to 2018.
Dr Godhania was arrested in November 2020 after cyber crime officers became aware he had been paying fees to use a data breach search engine.
He admitted seven counts of recording a person doing a private act and eight counts of causing a computer to perform function with intent to secure/enable unauthorised access at West and Central Hertfordshire Magistrates' Court in August last year.
He was subsequently sentenced to two years and eight months' imprisonment and made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and placed on the sex offenders' register for 10 years at St Albans Crown Court in November 2021.
The doctor has now also been struck off the medical register following a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing on June 23.
Dr Vinesh Godhania (pictured) accessed pornographic and other sexually explicit websites more than 19,400 times over an 11-month period
A panel heard that Dr Godhania qualified in 2012 and worked in various hospitals before he began working in his parents' tobacconist shop in 2018.
He used a 'combination of surreptitiously placed cameras in the bathrooms and toilets of the homes he has lived in' to film women having sex, taking showers and using the bathroom.
The tribunal
