Woman claims struck-off sex GP tried to choke her
A woman has said a doctor who was struck off after having ‘regular sex sessions at work’ when he should have been treating patients tried to choke her during sex.
Thomas Plimmer, 40, was found guilty of several misconduct charges at a tribunal earlier this year and struck off.
Now, another woman has come forward and told the BBC she met Plimmer on a dating app in 2017.
After their second date, the pair had gone to the woman’s home to have sex when she claims Plimmer started ‘squeezing my throat’ without consent.
She said she told him she wasn’t interested in that, and Plimmer initially seemed ‘remorseful’, but tried again.
‘He was behind me and grabbed hold of my throat and started squeezing my throat, which again was not something that had been discussed or that I was comfortable with,’ she said.
‘So I was trying to dig my hand behind his hand and he did let go. I was worried he was going to cut off my airway.
‘I was kind of held, literally held with one hand on the whole of my throat from behind and obviously that is not a very comfortable angle, it is not something we had discussed.’
The woman also said she was concerned Plimmer took photos or videos of her while they were intimate, because he had his phone out.
He later sent her videos of him having sex with other women, she claims.
At least five others accused the former doctor of inviting them to the practice for sex acts during working hours, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal heard.
The tribunal also heard he threatened another woman, saying if the ‘c*** takes me to the GMC, I’ll slit her throat’.
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Giving evidence at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing in Manchester he apologised to his former lovers and patients for his ‘disgusting’ behaviour.
He told the hearing he has been ‘recovering’ with the support of his long-term partner, taking medication and attending Sex Addicts Anonymous.
Plimmer insisted he had never crossed any boundaries with patients and likened himself to tragic Friends actor Matthew Perry.
He said: ‘Matthew Perry was a drug addict but he would never take heroin. Why take all the drugs but not taken heroin?’
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