Doctor struck off over child abuse images and videos

Sharmake Maxamed has been erased from the medical register

A former doctor has been struck off from the medical register after being convicted of making indecent images of children.

Sharmake Maxamed's phone was found to contain 50 indecent images and videos of children after it was seized by police during his arrest at his Leicester home in October 2021.

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service found his conduct "was so deplorable and egregious that it cannot be remedied".

Maxamed, 30, was sentenced at Leicester Crown Court in March to 10 months in prison, suspended for two years, after he admitted making indecent images of children and possession of cocaine.

A report of the tribunal, held between 8 and 14 January, said Maxamed had been erased from the medical register.

It said Maxamed qualified as a doctor in 2019 from the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, before working in Scandinavia.

He then moved to the UK to start work as a clinical fellow at George Eliot NHS Trust, Nuneaton, on 11 October 2021, the report added.

Maxamed was arrested eight days later regarding allegations relating to indecent imagery and possession of Class A drugs.

The report said: "The tribunal determined that no lesser sanction than erasure would adequately maintain public confidence in the medical profession.

"The only proportionate and appropriate sanction is erasure, to maintain public confidence in the profession, the regulator and the regulatory process and uphold professional standards."

It added that, "given the gravity of its findings", an immediate erasure order was necessary.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) said it was alerted by Australian Federal Police in July 2020 after an online account linked to Maxamed received a folder containing several hundred files.