A GP who travelled 100 miles to rape a 10-year-old girl has been struck off the medical register.

Rupesh Seth, 39, from Wareham was jailed for more than three years in March after he attempted to arrange a girl’s rape with a man he met online.

Seth, of Filleul Road, travelled from to Egham, Surrey from his home in Wareham with the intention of abusing the ten-year-old.

The man Seth collaborated with was actually an undercover officer and led to Seth’s arrest in 2020.

Searches of his phone also uncovered child sexual abuse imagery, including 41 indecent pictures across two mobiles.

Of those images, 27 were determined to be the most depraved level of category A.

Seth told officers he “had developed an addiction to indecent images of children and needed help,” the medical tribunal panel heard.

He was given a 40-month sentence after admitting trying to arrange and facilitate the commission of a child sex offence and three counts of making indecent images of children.

He was also handed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

Following his sentence at Guildford Crown Court, NHS Dorset revealed that Seth had worked in GP practices and hospitals in Bournemouth and across Dorset.

The Trust’s chief nursing officer Debbie Simmons said at the time “every child has the right to grow up safe from harm”, adding: “The actions of Dr Seth are inexcusable.”

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General Medical Council representative, Georgina Goring, said the doctor’s actions “did not involve a single act but related to conduct which took place over a prolonged period, reflecting serious behavioural and attitudinal issues.”

Detective Constable Andy Grimwood, from Surrey Police, said Seth’s arrest came after a joint investigation between the force’s Paedophile Online Investigations Team and the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit.

He said: “Thankfully, during this investigation, there was never a real-life victim and no children were ever in danger.”

The medical tribunal panel said Seth’s actions were ‘deplorable’ and a ban on working in medicine was the only way to “sufficiently protect, promote and maintain the health, safety and wellbeing of the public” and keep up public confidence in the profession.