A BOGUS Harley Street doctor who conned his way into a practice and concocted a £10,000 dental scam has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.

Syed Ashraf Jameel, of West Hampstead, north London, landed a job at the Harley Street Wellman clinic by lying about fake qualifications.

Police said the clinic where the 48-year-old worked specialises in men's health and charged "considerable amounts" of money for treatment.

He was convicted of offences of deception or attempted deception relating to the provision by him of treatment to patients for which they paid in the belief that he was a registered practitioner and in one case relating to a business proposition put by him to one of these patients.

He was also convicted of deception relating to the obtaining by him of prescription only drugs.

At one point Jameel told a dentist he had a contract with the Bahrain Embassy to treat Bahrain nationals, and that for £10,000 he could ensure that all dentistry work would be passed to him.

After leaving with the cash it became clear the contract was a figment of his imagination.

Jameel claimed to have qualified as a doctor in Pakistan in 1978 and said that he had carried out surgery and specialised in cardiology.

He told detectives that he had moved to Norway before coming to the UK in 2002 to pursue an interest in alternative medicine.

Jameel was arrested in May 2004 following an allegation of deception received by the Met's Public Sector Fraud team in January 2004.

Detective Constable David Baker, Economic and Specialist Crime command, said: "By working in a clinic specialising in men's health, Jameel was able to target vulnerable individuals who had sought treatment from him in the belief that he was both a qualified and registered doctor.

"His conviction should act as a deterrent to those who seek to provide medical treatment which they are not lawfully able to provide."