A surgeon has been suspended for three months following a medical tribunal probing allegations he was sexually inappropriate during consultations.

Consultant orthopaedic surgeon Mohammed Suhaib Sait denied sexually motivated misconduct and providing unnecessary treatment during two appointments at BMI Fawkham Manor in April and May 2016.

Today, following a week-long Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing, the married 55-year-old's fitness to practice was found to be impaired due to misconduct.

He will serve a three-month suspension before the end of which the case will be reviewed. It will begin after the 28-day appeal window.

During the first incident at the Longfield private hospital Dr Sait allegedly asked a woman to unclip her bra despite there being no medical need to do so. Sait denied the claim but admits he examined her back while it was unfastened.

A week later Dr Sait, who still works at Darent Valley hospital, was accused of making an unjustified examination of her breasts and telling her she was “beautiful”.

He was also alleged to have made an unsupported diagnosis of joint inflammation, failed to carry out necessary checks to ensure an injection was being accurately placed on two occasions, one count of which he admitted, and failed to provide the hospital with her medical records.

On both occasions he allegedly failed to offer her a chaperone and after the first consultation is said to have dishonestly recorded she had declined one.

Allegations of refastening her bra, telling her she was "beautiful" and that "her mother was a really beautiful lady" and failing to offer her a chaperone were found proved. The remaining allegations were not proved.

The MPTS ruled his actions in relation to this patient were not sexually motivated.

Weeks later he was accused of kissing and hugging another patient, telling her she was “very pretty” and suggesting she divorce her husband during an arranged meeting at the Eynsford Plough pub.

During that incident he was alleged to have told the woman he often met patients outside of work without telling his wife and asked her not to tell her husband about their meeting.

This is said to have followed a two-year period during which Dr Sait told the woman on multiple occasions how attractive she was.

With the exception of the accusations of kissing and hugging her and offering to phone her to discuss marital problems all of these allegations were found proved.

It was further ruled his actions towards her were sexually motivated.

Dr Sait will appeal against the tribunal's findings.

Last year the Messenger reported Dr Sait was being investigated by Kent Police over payments made for operations carried out at Fawkham Manor. He has not worked at the hospital since being suspended in July 2016.