A Maltese hospital doctor in the UK who was convicted of taking indecent images of children now faces being struck off the medical register, acording to the Liverpool Echo.

Dr David Scerri, who worked as a gastroenterologist at Aintree Hospital until his arrest, is due before a medical tribunal later this month.

The panel has the power to ban him from practising medicine again.

Dr Scerri, 48, was convicted of six counts of taking indecent photographs of a child at Manchester Crown Court in June last year, the newspaper reported.

He was suspended from practising medicine until the outcome of the MPTS hearing, ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for five years and given a three-year community order. 

Dr Scerri, of Wythenshawe, Manchester, qualified as a doctor in Malta in 1991 and registered to practise in Britain in 2003, before becoming a gastroenterology specialist in 2009.

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