Hong Kong doctor jailed for sex assault has licence suspended for 9 months
A Hong Kong doctor jailed for sexually assaulting a teenager in a crowded train compartment has had his medical licence suspended for nine months, with an inquiry panel finding that his actions had 'tarnished the reputation' of practitioners in the city.
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Sunny Li Wing-hei was jailed for two weeks in May 2023 after he was found guilty of assaulting an 18-year-old girl in a Central-bound MTR train by rubbing his groin against her buttocks one evening during the Easter holiday in 2022.
'The offence of indecent assault committed by the defendant on X was very serious,' Fok Tai-fai, chairman of the Medical Council's inquiry panel, said on Tuesday. 'What the defendant did had tarnished the reputation of doctors in Hong Kong.'
Fok added: 'It is essential in our view to maintain among members of the public a well-founded confidence that any medical doctor whom they consult will be a person of unquestionable integrity, probity and trustworthiness.
'Any person who lacks these essential attributes can hardly be a fit and proper person to practise medicine.'
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Li, then aged 30, was found guilty of indecent assault and sentenced at West Kowloon Court.
The court heard that Li had used a vibrator on his genitals and removed his underpants before he attacked the teenager on April 15, 2022.
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