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February 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Female GP who worked nearby slams ‘old boys club’ who helped him dodge complaints
- Tribunal criticises authorities for failing to act sooner
By
Damien Gayle
Last updated at 12:46 PM on 19th February 2012
A GP has been barred from practising after a tribunal found he sexually abused a string of young women over a 20-year period.
Dr Navin Zala from Gravesend, Kent, carried on treating patients despite facing at least nine different complaints and a series of police investigations.
After four criminal trials – none of which ended in a conviction – he was finally struck off following an investigation by West Kent NHS Trust. A tribunal upheld the decision.
‘Abusive, exploitative and sexually motivated’: A tribunal found Dr Navin Zala abused a string of young female patients. (Picture posed by model)
In a damning report, the tribunal panel outlined a litany of mistakes by police, prosecutors and health officials which left the disgraced doctor in his position.
It found that Dr Zala abused six patients – four of them pregnant – by carrying out inappropriate breast and internal exams at his Gravesend practice between 1998 and 2007.
His victims, all young women, were ‘carefully selected so as to avoid confrontation, complaint and detection’, according to the report, seen by the Sunday Telegraph.
It concluded: ‘The findings reveal a pattern of behaviour by Dr Zala towards each of these women that was abusive, exploitative and sexually motivated over a period of many years.’
A female GP who practised nearby and helped one victim to make a complaint claimed Dr Zala had been helped to dodge complaints by an ‘old boys’ club’ of his colleagues.
She said: ‘I don’t think he thought he was doing anything wrong. That’s the other awful thing about it. He thought what he was doing was acceptable.’
Dr Zala, who lives with his wife, Helen, started working as a GP in Gravesend in the early Eighties after qualifying in Poona, India, in 1975.
He faced his first complaint in 1992, when a woman claimed he examined her inappropriately. Three more women then came forward alleging incidents dating as far back as 1988.
According to one, she went to him about a sore throat and he insisted in examining her breasts ‘while you are here’.
The doctor stood trial at Maidstone Crown Court in 1994, where he faced eight charges of indecent assault against three women.
Following a retrial, he was acquitted of all the charges – in part because it emerged that evidence had been ‘contaminated’ after NHS officials had arranged a meeting between two victims before they contacted police.
A pregnant patient accused Dr Zala of touching her breasts and stroking her leg that same year, leaving her feeling ‘like she had been raped’.
He faced magistrates over that complaint and was committed for a crown court trial, but it never happened.
Later that decade, Dr Zala was again cleared after standing trial over allegations from another female patient.
Dr Zala was again arrested in January 2008, after three more women came forward with allegations that he had behaved inappropriately towards them.
One of the women claimed she had visited him complaining of a headache as a teenager in the late Eighties and he had stood behind her and pressed himself into her.
On another occasion, she had gone to see him while suffering from abdominal pains and he had ‘cupped her breasts’, she claimed.
Seven months after his arrest, however, police told Dr Zala no action would be taken against him.
The decision to drop the case came after officers discovered two complainants had discussed their allegations before coming forward, which meant there was a risk their evidence could not be relied on in court.
Nevertheless, despite the lack of any criminal convictions, West Kent PCT took Dr Zala off its ‘performers list’ in May 2009, barring him from working as a GP in the area.
That decision has now been upheld by a tribunal and Dr Zala has also been removed from the national performers list, blocking him from GP work anywhere in the country.
He is now due face a ‘fitness to practice’ panel at the General Medical Council (GMC)
Criticising authorities’ failure to act sooner, the tribunal report says: ‘The lack of confidence that nearly all these patients prospectively felt about complaining to anyone in authority does not ring at all hollow when one considers what actually happened on those occasions when the concerns of some patients were brought to the attention of other health professionals, the Health Authority, the local medical committee, the police, and the GMC.’
Dr Zala did not comment.
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