July 2004 GP ‘failed to reveal conviction’ A GP convicted of child porn offences who got a job at a holiday camp after lying on his application form has been struck off the medical register. Paul Hewish, 53, worked as a park warden at Hopton Holiday Village in Norfolk without telling his employer he was on the sex offenders’ register. He was a GP at Goole, East Yorkshire, when he was convicted of having 30 indecent images in August 2002. On Thursday, the General Medical Council said he had been struck off. The GMC’s professional conduct committee, sitting in Manchester, said he had shown a “lack of insight” and “dishonesty of a particularly serious nature.” Father-of-four Hewish, of Hopton, Great Yarmouth, had admitted failing to provide Bourne Leisure with appropriate details when he applied for a job at the holiday camp on 1 March, 2003. The GMC heard he had failed to declare he was a registered sex offender, failed to provide details of his criminal convictions and said he was a self-employed contractor for a 12-year period up to 2002 when he was actually a GP in Goole, East Yorkshire. Chairman Denis McDevitt told Hewish: “The committee are deeply concerned about the contents of your job application for employment at a holiday camp. “They note your failure to disclose your status as a registered sex offender, your inadequate completion of the application form and the false information which you supplied about your previous work experience. “In the light of your position and experience, you ought to have realised that it was inappropriate for a person who is on the Sex Offenders’ Register to seek employment at a holiday camp, an area frequented by children, no matter what sort of job is occupied. “They are also concerned at your apparent lack of insight into the gravity of your actions and your willingness to justify or excuse them.” Hewish was convicted after Humberside Police raided his York home in March 2000 and discovered 30 images of young girls downloaded over a three-year period. A locum filling in for him had discovered some pictures in his desk at Goole Medical Centre.