A disgraced family GP who was previously convicted of sexual assault has been struck off the doctor's register.

Dr Sanjay Chatterjee from Larkfield was reported to police and the General Medical Council by a patient who accused him of sexual assault during an examination.

The conduct in question took place in May 2021 at Aylesford Medical Centre.

The patient told police he had inserted a medical implement inside her vagina without her consent during an examination for suspected haemorrhoids.

A panel at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service said the examination was not clinically indicated or appropriate but found it had not been sexually motivated.

No criminal action has been taken against the 60-year-old, but he has been taken off the doctor’s register and found guilty of serious professional misconduct.

Chatterjee did not attend the hearing but in a statement said he had no intention of returning to medical practice.

His representation also pointed out there had been no “repetition of any sexually motivated behaviour in the period 2011 to the present day, 2024 a period of 13 years.”

In 2011, KentOnline reported how Chatterjee had been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman at a Medway surgery.

He was found guilty of one charge of sexual assault but cleared of six others. He was also cleared of assault by penetration involving another woman who he claimed to have had an affair with.

As a result, he was placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years and given 250 hours unpaid work, ordered to pay £1,000 costs and a nine-month suspension from work.

In 2017, Chatterjee was back in court after breaching the terms of his order when he failed to report plans to travel aboard despite needing permission from authorities.

He had taken multiple trips, including to India several times, and had done so using a new passport, which he had not told the courts about.

Magistrates sentenced him to 84 days in prison, suspended for a year, and ordered him to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and pay £200 costs.