Wealthy surgeon who beat his ‘Champagne Charlie girl’ lover in their Travelodge room in bid to have rough sex with her and bought Class A drugs on dark web is banned from treating patients for a year
A wealthy surgeon who beat his lover in their Travelodge room and bought Class A drugs on the dark web has been banned from treating patients for a year.
Dr Perbinderpal Grewal, 50, slapped and choked the woman, pulled out clumps of her hair and threw her on the bed after he booked a room at the budget hotel in Portsmouth in the hope he would have ‘rough sex’ with her.
The woman, who had met Grewal on a dating app for rich men, was said to have been left in ‘complete shock’ following the horrific sexual encounter in 2019 and fled to reception in tears with her hair in disarray and red marks on her neck.
She then received a text from him in which he said he ‘didn’t know what he would have done as he wouldn’t have been able to stop himself,’ adding: ‘I wanted to f*** you whilst holding your hair down and slapping you.’
At the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester, Grewal was found guilty of misconduct charges relating to his violent behaviour towards the woman known only as Ms A.
The public school educated surgeon was suspended from medical practice but avoided being struck off after claiming at the time his workload had been unusually high due to staff shortages and that he had been racially abused.
The hearing was also told how Grewal, a consultant in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Southampton General Hospital would take unnamed Class A drugs he had purchased from the dark web for ‘most of his free time.’
Public school educated Dr Perbinderpal Grewal (pictured) has been banned from treating patients for a year after he beat his lover at a hotel during a torrid drug-fulled affair
The attack occurred in March 2019 when the pair met up at a Travelodge in Portsmouth. (file image)
Grewal, who attended the £13,707-a-year Merchant Taylors School on Merseyside before graduating at Imperial College London, shared illicit substances with the woman at a London hotel in January 2019, two months prior to the attack. She told him she was a ‘Champagne Charlie girl’.
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Ms A eventually reported Grewal in October that year following a text exchange in which he told her: ‘Been on it since Sat. Just got to work. Not slept since Fri night. Am surgeon of the week. When can you f*** me?.’
He was cleared of separate charges of turning up to work whilst unfit for duty.
Grewal insisted his abuse of illicit drugs was for weight loss and appetite suppression rather than ‘recreational’ use and said he would usually drink the unnamed drug with milk or water – rather than snort it up his nose.
He said he had now quit drugs, was no longer working as a vascular surgeon and is thought to be working as a leadership coach. He was previously suspended in 2010 over a hit and run road smash.
The hearing was told the pair had met on a US-based website called ‘Seeking Arrangement’ also known as Seeking.com.
Ms A described the site as being ‘for women who wanted to meet and date rich men’ and in a statement said: ‘The idea of the website was that the men would give the women gifts or take them to nice places, and it would likely involve a sexual arrangement.’
At the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, in Manchester, Grewal (pictured) was found guilty of misconduct charges relating to his violent behaviour towards the woman known only as Ms A
She said Grewal told her he would buy illicit substances from the dark web and they took drugs together at hotel in London in January 2019 after he sent her money for travel costs.
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The attack occurred in March that year when the pair met up at a Travelodge in Portsmouth.
They had dinner at a near Indian restaurant but during the evening they argued and Ms A left to go back to the hotel with Grewal following shortly afterwards.
In a statement Ms A, who denied wanting ‘rough sex’, said: ‘I went back to the hotel room to get my things and this is when he beat me. He slapped me and then grabbed me by my hair and pulled me by the hair towards the door. It was very painful and frightening.
‘I thought he was going to throw me out of the room – instead, he forcibly threw me down onto the bed that was closest to the door. He then held me down by my throat and I couldn’t breathe.
‘Looking back, I think there could have been a sexual element to his actions. He had told me that choking was something that he liked to do sexually. I was in complete shock as he attacked me.
‘I don’t remember how I got away from Dr Grewal but I managed to get into the bathroom and lock the door behind me. Dr Grewal is a big man, and if it had lasted a long time, he would have done a lot more damage to me.
The pair had met on a US-based website called ‘Seeking Arrangement’ also known as Seeking.com. Pictured: Dr Perbinderpal Grewal
‘I was in complete shock and I locked myself in the bathroom. I was shocked because it was so out of character and he was horrible. He had never been like that before. I waited until he had gone then went down to reception.
‘He sent texts to say if I hadn’t left he didn’t know what he would have done as he would not have been able to stop himself as it turned him on.’
A receptionist at the hotel known as Ms D said in a statement: ‘The lady rushed out from the lift – she was very distressed and crying, her hair had been messed up and I can’t say for certain but I believe I remember her neck being marked.
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‘She told me she had been assaulted by the male and he had left with all her things, I insisted she get in contact with the police but she was distressed and very hesitant, all she wanted was her belongings back and to leave..’
The woman’s belongings were found dumped on a stairwell. In an interview with NHS investigators Grewal said that his relationship with Ms A was ‘sexually rough’ and denied any assault.
He said there had been a verbal argument during which ‘things had been thrown at him.’
Grewal said he had collected her bags to prevent further items being thrown or damage to the room. He insisted he had left her without any injury, placed her bags in the stairwell and left the hotel.
He claimed any presentation of messy hair or marks on her neck were ‘potentially caused by earlier rough sex or because she had become upset when attacking him with things from her bag.’
In his witness statement, Grewal said: ‘We met at a Travelodge and went down to the bar to have a drink. We later came up to the room before dinner and proceeded to have consensual rough sex. We had previously engaged in rough sex on the other occasions that we had met.
‘It is possible that this consensual sex resulted in marks to her neck and hair loss from her hair being pulled.’
But Mr Lee Fish lawyer for the General Medical Council called for Grewal to be struck off saying: ‘In assaulting Ms A, a woman in a vulnerable position alone in a hotel room, and supplying her with a Class A illegal drug, he clearly brought the profession into disrepute. Misconduct involving the use of drugs, particularly illegal drugs, must be taken extremely seriously.
For Grewal, Mr David Morris said: ‘He regrets his relationship with Ms A, for the hurt he caused himself and the hurt it caused her.
‘But it was not a sustained attack and there was no evidence long-lasting or permanent physical or psychological harm. Ms A had described this as an isolated instance in their relationship. She had otherwise enjoyed his company.’
MPTS chairman Louise Sweet KC said: ‘At the time of the events, Mr Grewal was facing multiple challenges, His workload had been unusually high due to staff shortages and he had been racially abused.
‘There had been a lack of support in the workplace and although he let none of these matters impact his clinical work, he had made considerable errors of judgement outside of the workplace.’
‘He has since changed roles which has reduced his stress and is content in his new role. The Tribunal was satisfied that Mr Grewal is developing insight and does not pose a significant risk of repeating his misconduct.’
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