Pakistani doctor banned from practice for 12-months after battering daughter for going to Halloween party

A Pakistani-origin cardiologist in the United Kingdom has been banned from medical practice for a year for beating up his teenage daughter.

Dr Gohar Rahman, 57, who worked at the UN gave his teenage daughter a beating and labelled her a “prostitute” after she disobeyed his orders and went to a Halloween party last year, a medical tribunal heard.

The daughter, then 17, had gone to a Halloween party after telling her father she would be home from a friend’s house by 9:30pm. However, following the party she went for a night out and then slept over at the home of a male friend.

Furious, Rahman and his wife collected their daughter the next morning. During the journey home, Rahman leaned back in the car and grabbed his daughter’s hair and banged her head on the back of the passenger seat two or three times, The Telegraph reported.

After reaching home Rahman continued to beat her, kicking and slapping her while she lay on the floor. The daughter says she remembers being hit with a shoe and was assaulted to her arms back and bottom.

Police were called to the scene after Rahman’s daughter sent out an SOS message on social media using a Nintendo DS. Rahman was suspended for 12 months on Tuesday.

Chair of the tribunal at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing in Manchester, Margaret Dodd said, “The tribunal considered that, in being convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, you have brought the profession into disrepute.”

Earlier in February, Rahman was given a 10-month suspended sentence at Liverpool Crown Court where he and was ordered to complete 100 hours’ unpaid work after he was found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Rahman graduated from Khyber Medical University in Pakistan before moving to the UK in 1998.