A FAMILY doctor who filmed himself sexually abusing his patients has been struck off.

Dr Syed Amjad Husain recorded sex attacks on five victims, including an elderly woman and two children, while working at Orchard Court surgery, in Darlington.

When police raided the 31-year-old's home in the West End of the town they discovered 1,600 images of child pornography downloaded from the Internet on his computer.

At a hearing into his conduct at the General Medical Council (GMC) yesterday, Jane Sullivan, for the GMC, said: "These patients were treated in a humiliating and degrading fashion.

"It did serious harm and deliberately so and there is a continuing risk to patients.

"It was an abuse of a doctor's position of trust involving vulnerable patients, both young and elderly impaired."

Husain was jailed at Leeds Crown Court in June last year after he admitted five counts of indecent assault, two of taking indecent photographs of a child, eight charges of making indecent photos and eight of possessing child pornography.

He was jailed for three-and-a-half years, but his prison term was extended by 12 months by the Court of Appeal after the Crown Prosecution Service argued it was too lenient.

Husain, who is still in prison, did not attend yesterday's hearing.

Ordering his expulsion from the profession, GMC chairman Roland Goven said: "This conduct was abhorrent and was a complete betrayal of the trust placed in Dr Husain by his patients."

Husain has been banned from working with children for life and placed on the sex offenders register.

When he was sentenced he apologised to his patients and profession in a letter to the court.

It said: "I am immature as a doctor and immature as a person, without any sexual experience.

"The combination of this has, unfortunately, contributed to my demise."