More than 1,000 doctors are being allowed to practise despite convictions for offences such as sex attacks, possessing child abuse images and violence.

Other crimes committed include drug dealing, fraud, causing death by dangerous driving, perverting the course of justice, cruelty to a child, riot and possessing a weapon.

Reported by the Daily Mirror. You can read the full story here. 

I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.