Reality TV star doc has been axed for misleading and offensive Facebook posts
A star doctor from the REALITY TV show has been axed after sharing misleading and offensive posts on Facebook.
NHS medic Dr Ricky Allen has been kicked out of the profession after spreading anti-vax messages and racist and homophobic abuse on the social media site.
Dr. Allen, who appeared on the Channel 4 show Hunted, raged on Facebook that only a 'brainless dunce' would get a Covid jab.
He also branded Scotland's people as 'despicable, stingy and mean-spirited' and described Islam as a 'religion for dirty old men'.
He also called for “machine guns every 200 yards” along the Kent coast, leaving bodies “burnt on the beach”.
Dr. Allen, who worked as a GP and hospital doctor for more than 30 years, has now been dismissed by the General Medical Council.
A tribunal hearing was told of a raft of offensive messages he shared on Facebook – including insults aimed at the 'lazy, fat, brain-dead British public' who believed in 'this Covid scam'.
His posts amounted to 'serious' misconduct affecting his fitness to practice, the GMC has now ruled its findings report.
His appearance on Channel 4 took place in 2015, when he was one of several participants posing as fugitives trying to escape surveillance experts.
He has also appeared in an anti-vaccine YouTube video.
Dr. Allen retired in 2018 after a 33-year career, but returned to the NHS in March 2020 when the pandemic hit.
He worked as a GP in the emergency department at Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, Kent.
A police support officer complained to the GMC in July about his anti-vax posts and the temporary permit to practice he was given was revoked.
In one message he wrote: 'Only a brainless half-mind would consider having an experimental and sometimes fatal chemical injected into themselves irreversibly and repeatedly.
'Apparently there are a lot of idiots like that walking around. Don't be one of them.'
He also wrote: 'The greater mass of the British public, the fat, lazy, brain-dead farm animals that they are, have gobbled up this Covid scam as it was spoon-fed to them by the media.
“They deserve everything that's coming to them. It's natural selection at work.”
'Abuse of his position as a doctor'
Dr. Allen, who represented himself at the tribunal, admitted that sharing the messages that investigators said could damage public trust in the medical profession.
His name and GMC registration number were attached to his Facebook posts, the report said.
The tribunal also found that he wrote “derogatory” comments about race, religion, immigration, same-sex relationships and transgender issues.
He used Facebook to describe Islam as “the religion for dirty old men” and “illegal aliens” as “a plague”, turning the French capital Paris into an “open sewer”.
He also complained that “the Scots are whining again”, adding: “They are a despicable, stingy and mean-spirited race. And half of them are drug addicts.”
And he raged that “men who live the fantasy of being women are perverts in the true sense of the word” and that Britain has “imported a lot of filth into this country”.
In his testimony to the tribunal, he accepted responsibility for the posts but insisted the “vast majority” of the public would agree with him, the GMC report said.
He also said he became increasingly concerned in 2020 about what he called the government's “fear-mongering” pandemic response.
He also accused the GMC of “dancing to the tune of its political masters” by investigating him Mail reported.
But the GMC ruling said his comments were derogatory and would damage the reputation of the medical profession.
It said: “Most members of the public would be shocked by Dr. Allen's comments.”
His anti-vax comments went “beyond legitimate debate” and his behavior fell “well below the standards of conduct expected of a registered medical practitioner”, the GMC report said.
His “regrettable” comments about “a wide variety of people whose characteristics he disliked” amounted to “serious” misconduct, the tribunal said.
Despite not endangering patient safety, he “abused his position as a physician and the trust placed in him by the public,” it added.
He has one month to appeal the decision to immediately remove his name from the medical register.
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