A Bradford GP jailed for child porn offences has been banned from working by medical watchdogs.
Dr Simon Watson, jailed for two years at Leeds Crown Court in April, was struck off the medical register until further notice by the General Medical Council sitting in Manchester yesterday.
Watson, 38, was jailed after admitting to 11 counts of distributing indecent photographs of children.
He was also convicted of possessing indecent photographs or images of children.
Police raided his then-home in Otley and found 604 pornographic images, including some "very disturbing" pictures showing the very worst category of child sex abuse, the court was told.
They had been downloaded from the internet by Dr Watson and attached to e-mails.
The pictures were then traded with other paedophiles on the internet.
Watson, now of Victoria Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders' Register for ten years by the court.
He reportedly qualified as a doctor at the University of Leeds in 1989 and worked at a Bradford clinic which health chiefs would not name.
A GMC Fitness to Practise Panel had given him an Interim Order, banning him from working after his arrest in December 2004.
At a special GMC hearing yesterday, the Panel ruled that because of his conviction Watson would be immediately struck off the medical register and banned from working as a GP.
In a statement, the GMC said: "The Panel has determined that Dr Watson's behaviour is fundamentally incompatible with his remaining a medical practitioner and has therefore determined that his name be erased from the Medical Register.
"In view of the seriousness of the offences, and the risk of re-offending, the Panel considered that Dr Watson's registration should be suspended forthwith."
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