A SECOND dental nurse, jailed after a violent street fight, has been struck off by the General Dental Council.

Bhopinder Singh Matharoo, who was based at the Wellcroft Othodontic and Dental Practice in Shipley, was neither present nor represented at the disciplinary hearing.

The GDC's Professional Conduct Committee was told Matharoo was convicted at Leeds Crown court of affray, amended to assault on a person causing actual bodily harm and was sentenced to six months imprisonment two years ago.

A colleague at Wellcroft, dental nurse Gurvinder Lall, was also jailed following the same incident and then struck off the GDC register in May last year.

Matharoo also had a previous conviction in 1995 for a similar offence.

In reaching its decision, the committee said: "The committee considered not only the serious nature of the convictions, but also that Mr Matharoo had shown very limited engagement with the GDC and had not remediated or expressed remorse."

It also considered a telephone note of his conversation with GDC lawyers on January 15, 2015, when he said "I have paid the price and done my time and how I see it is that should be the end of it."

In its conclusion the disciplinary panel said: "In these circumstances the committee considered that the appropriate and proportionate sanction is to erase Mr Matharoo's name from the Register for Dental Care Professionals."

Unless Matharoo, who was immediately suspended, exercises his right of appeal, his name will be struck off the register in approximately 28 days' time.

The GDC investigates matters when it is alleged that a dental professional's ability, behaviour or health may mean that their fitness to practise is impaired.

Matharoo was jailed along with two others, including Gurvinder Lall following a fight near Leeds Station after they had left an 80th birthday celebration.

Two men, who had been on a night out in Leeds, saw an apparent family disagreement between two groups of Asians leaving the Queens Hotel and became involved which led to them being badly beaten up.

Both dental nurses Matharoo, 43 and Lall, 28, who shared the same Leeds address were jailed for six months along with a third man.

The GDC hearing which investigated Lall's behaviour also found when he had applied for a place on an Orthodontic Therapy Course in May 2012 at the University of Central Lancashire, he had not registered with the General Dental Council despite registration being a course entry requirement.

And he had knowingly not told the university he was unregistered at the time of his interview and by the start of the course because it would block him.

Wellcroft Orthodontic and Dental Practice declined to comment to the Telegraph & Argus about the GDC's rulings.