A FORMER psychiatrist at the QEII has been struck off for lying about his shameful past in job applications.

Dr Idowu Otote, 43, from Middlesex, was suspended for 12 motnhs in 2006 after being found guilty of groping a nurse's breasts and of inappropriate behaviour towards two other nurses.

But Otote claimed he misunderstood the conditions of his disciplinary when he applied to two NHS trusts for work before the suspension had been lifted.

Panel chairman Howard Freeman told Otote at the hearing of the General Medical Council on Friday it was for patient's protection that they stopped him working.

He said: "The panel has noted that you have not worked as a doctor for over five years, and have done little to address the deficiencies identified.

"Moreover, this has been compounded by your dishonest behaviour in connection with the two application forms you completed for employment.

"The panel has concluded that your persistent lack of insight coupled with your dishonest behaviour, allied to the other factors identified in your case, is fundamentally incompatible with you continuing to be a registered medical practitioner.

"Given the circumstances of your case, the panel has determined to direct that your name be erased from the medical register.

"The panel is satisfied that it is necessary for the protection of patients and otherwise in the public interest to do so."

The panel had heard how in 1999 Otote groped a shocked nurse yards from her boyfriend's door as she walked home alone after a Torbay Hospital party.

She ran off but Otote grabbed her and tried to kiss her again as she screamed. When arrested Otote kissed a policeman's boot and begged for forgiveness.

The following year he joined East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust in Welwyn Garden City where he harassed a nurse by demanding to check her pulse to see if she was happily married.

A month later, he verbally abused a nurse at the Hollybush Day Hospital when she explained she could not leave a ward to help him as she was the only nurse on duty.

On the same day he later struggled to take a patient's blood pressure.

Otote qualified from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria in 1990 before moving to Scotland and later England.