Clare Dyer , 2025-11-11 16:16:00
A consultant pathologist has been suspended from the UK medical register for 12 months after spilling beer on a junior female colleague’s cleavage at a work party and licking it off her breasts.
Mark Johnson also sent derogatory and sexually demeaning text messages to the same woman about other colleagues, a tribunal found.
In a case where General Medical Council (GMC) lawyers argued for erasure, the tribunal found that several other allegations of sexual harassment stemming from the same party—at which most of the witnesses acknowledged drinking heavily—were not proved.
The main witness against Johnson was an administrative assistant named only as Ms A, the target of the text messages and the beer spill. She was a …
