Trainee anaesthetist took drugs from hospital to use for sexual purposes.

Doctor Jonathon Dean, a 31-year-old trainee anaesthetist from Poplar, east London, is facing jail time after pleading guilty to stealing drugs from the hospital he worked in. His intention was to use ‘at least some of them for sexual activity’ with his girlfriend, Tara Slade.
Judge Philip Grey, presiding over Huntingdon Crown Court on Friday, said he would sentence Dean on the basis that his ‘intention was to use at least some’ of the stolen anaesthetic drugs for sexual activity with Miss Slade.

It was revealed that Dean had stolen the drugs from Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone, east London. The judge said it was ‘plain was anaesthetised’ and that Dean ‘knew full well he shouldn’t take drugs or use them in this way’, but that he would not sentence him on the basis it was ‘all his idea’.

Dean pleaded guilty to nine counts of the theft of drugs, including morphine, from Whipps Cross Hospital. Five of the counts, concerning the theft of the drugs cyclizine, ondansetron, propofol, midazolam and morphine, were said to have happened on or before December 14, 2018. Three of the counts, involving cyclizine, ondansetron and morphine, were said to have happened on or before January 28, 2019. The ninth count of theft, of propofol, was said to have happened between January 21 and March 21 of this year.

He also pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing a controlled drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. One count was of the class A drug morphine on January 28, 2019 and the other was of the class C midazolam on December 14, 2018. A count of unlawfully administering a noxious substance, a mixture of morphine, propofol and midazolam, to Tara Slade with intent to endanger life was denied and ordered to lie on the file.

Judge Grey informed the jury that Dean had pleaded guilty to the thefts and that the prosecution were not seeking a trial on the one outstanding charge, so ‘there is not going to be a trial’. Catherine Farrelly, the prosecutor, added that Dean had been ‘suspended on full pay’.

The judge granted Dean bail, but warned him that a prison sentence was ‘overwhelmingly the most likely outcome in these proceedings’. He will be sentenced on February 16 at either Huntingdon Crown Court or Cambridge Crown Court.

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