Dr Andrew Francis-Lang was struck off the medical register
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A doctor practising in Welwyn Hatfield and Chelmsford is set to be struck off the UK medical register after police found more than 100 indecent images of children on his computers at home.
Dr Andrew Francis-Lang was acquitted following a criminal trial at Chelmsford Crown Court in June 2018, but the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service has now found his fitness to practise medicine impaired and has ordered his erasure from the General Medical Council s register. This means he will no longer be able to practise in the UK.
At the criminal proceedings, Dr Francis-Lang stated that he had no knowledge of how the images had come to be on his three computers at home, or how the images had been subsequently deleted. He asserted that they may have been downloaded by accident or by the deliberate act of another person without his knowledge.