UK doctor stripped of license
2012-12-21 20:38
London - A British doctor has been stripped of his
medical license for failing to protect Iraqi detainees after the death of a man,
who was beaten and killed, while in the custody of British troops.
Derek Keilloh treated Baha Mousa, a hotel clerk who died
at a British base after being detained in Basra in September 2003.
Keilloh, then a captain in the Queen's Lancashire
Regiment, tried unsuccessfully to revive Mousa, but denied knowledge of the
scale of the man's injuries. Mousa had sustained 93 injuries, including
fractured ribs and a broken nose.
Last week a tribunal found that Keilloh had failed to
protect detainees from further mistreatment or inform senior officers of what
was going on.
On Friday the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service
ordered Keilloh barred from practicing medicine.
- AP
