A top heart surgeon is accused of raping a woman and sexually assaulting at least three others in a span of 13 years, a court has heard.
Fifty-three-year-old Mohamed Amrani appeared at Hammersmith Magistrates Court on July 27 charged with 11 offences, including one count of rape, two charges of assault by penetration, six charges of indecent assault and two charges of sexual assault, all on women over 16.
The Moroccan-born Harley Street consultant works at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust. He also works at The BUPA Cromwell Hospital, in South Kensington, where one of the alleged sexual assaults took place.
Amrani, who lives in Harrow, London, was granted conditional bail and the case has now been sent to Isleworth Crown Court for a hearing on August 24.
A spokesman for the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust was quoted in Daily Mail as saying: “The General Medical Council has suspended Mr Amrani's licence to practice and he is therefore currently excluded from working at the trust.”
Also, a spokesman for the Cromwell Hospital in the same media report said: “We suspended Mr Amrani the moment the police alerted us about their investigation.”
