October 8th 2023.
Hossam Metwally, a doctor who was jailed for voyeurism two years ago, has been ordered to pay more than £51,000 in damages to one of his victims. He was sentenced to 14-and-a-half years in September 2021 for both the voyeurism and for endangering his partner’s life by injecting her with drugs, leaving her with multiple organ failure.
Before the sentencing, Metwally admitted taking pictures and recording videos of two unrelated female patients without their knowledge, while they were in a state of undress when they attended for treatment. One of the two patients brought a misuse of private information claim against him at the High Court in London earlier this year.
In a ruling on Friday, Mrs Justice Steyn said the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was entitled to damages of £51,092, including money for her future psychological treatment. Metwally had asked the woman to get changed into a medical gown before leaving the room, but he was recording her on a hidden camera.
The woman told the High Court that she was “totally shocked by what has happened to me”, that she felt “violated and vulnerable” and said that her “trust in people has gone”. In her judgment, Mrs Justice Steyn said: “The claimant was owed an obligation of trust. Metwally breached that obligation of trust by repeatedly, covertly videoing the claimant while she was getting undressed, taking images of her naked from the waist upwards, and while she was being treated.”
She continued that “as a direct consequence” of Metwally’s actions, the woman was suffering from PTSD and had experienced depression. Metwally did not attend the hearing and was not represented. In May last year, a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel concluded that he should be erased from the medical register after it ruled his fitness to practise was impaired because of his convictions.
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