April 2015 Former Aintree hospital doctor faces being struck off after indecent images of children conviction A hospital doctor who was convicted of taking indecent images of children now faces being struck off. Dr David Scerri, who worked as a gastroenterologist at Aintree Hospital until his arrest, is due before a medical tribunal later this month. The panel has the power to ban him from practising medicine again. Scerri, 48, was convicted of six counts of taking indecent photographs of a child at Manchester Crown Court in June last year. He was ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for five years and given a three-year community order. Scerri, of Wythenshawe, Manchester, qualified as a doctor in Malta in 1991 and registered to practise in Britain in 2003, before becoming a gastroenterology specialist in 2009. A spokesman for Aintree Hospital said: “Dr Scerri is no longer employed by the Trust. “Immediately after Greater Manchester Police told the Trust that Dr Scerri had been arrested in July 2012, the Trust took steps to stop him from working in the hospital. “We also informed the General Medical Council of the situation. The charges were unrelated to any aspect of Dr Scerri’s role in the hospital.” Scerri will appear before the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) panel on April 29 and 30 in Manchester. The MPTS said in a document published ahead of the hearing: “The panel will inquire into the allegation that, on June 13, 2014 at the crown court in Manchester, Dr Scerri was convicted of six counts of taking indecent photographs of a child and was sentenced to a community order for three years with a supervision requirement, required to attend the Northumbria sex offender group for 144 days, to sign the sex offenders’ register for a period of five years and made subject to a sex offenders prevention order for five years.” Scerri is suspended from practising medicine until the outcome of the MPTS hearing.