Fancy a rum and fag: Doctor used question as code to have sex, claims patient
A DOCTOR used the question “fancy a rum and fag?” as a secret code for sex during an affair with a patient, a medical tribunal heard.
Dr Curtis Sonny, 47, turned up at the 37-year-old woman’s house after meeting her at the hospital where he worked, it was alleged.
The disciplinary hearing in Manchester was told their code was agreed after Dr Sonny arrived with rum and cigarettes.
The woman – known as Patient A – said the affair began in 2013 when she arrived in A&E at Diana, Princess of Wales hospital, in Grimsby, wearing a pink mouse onesie after falling from a kitchen stool as she drank rum.
She was referred to Dr Sonny, whom she said gave her an Indian head massage.
During their alleged month-long affair she said they would act out roles in which he was the “daddy” to the patient’s “baby girl”.
The mother of one told the tribunal: “I had an X-ray, then Dr Sonny came and sat behind me telling me my hair was lovely.
“He started massaging my head and playing with my hair.
I had been telling him my life story because I was still merry and I’m quite a chatterbox.”
Patient A said Dr Sonny – who posted Facebook pictures of himself dressed as film pirate Jack Sparrow – took her mobile number and he called her two days later.
She said: “I didn’t really want to be involved with him. I wasn’t particularly attracted to him.
“He would say things like, ‘Can I come over for rum and a fag?’”
I had an X-ray, then Dr Sonny came and sat behind me telling me my hair was lovely. He started massaging my head and playing with my hair. I had been telling him my life story because I was still merry and I’m quite a chatterbox.
She said they had sex and he went to her house at least twice more.
The alleged affair ended after she told a nurse.
When she texted Dr Sonny to let him know, he allegedly replied: “I was just trying to be a friend.”
She said he sent another text that said: “Fancy a fag?” Patient A added: “That meant come and have sex.”
Cath Cundy, for the General Medical Council, said: “The GMC case is that Patient A was a vulnerable adult by reason of her physical and mental health.”
Dr Sonny, who faces being struck off the medical register, now lives in his native Trinidad and did not attend.
He admits intimate conversations with the patient but denies having sex.
The hearing continues.