Man ordered to pay thousands to German doctor who killed his father
A MAN whose father was killed by a foreign doctor has been ordered to pay the medic thousands of pounds.
Rory Gray, 49, was sued in a German court by Dr Daniel Ubani, who killed his father David with a drugs overdose, after he and his brother confronted the doctor at a medical conference.
An inquest found David Gray, 70, was unlawfully killed in 2008 after Dr Ubani, who was working as an out-of-hours locum, fatally administered 10 times the normal dose of diamorphine.
Mr Gray and his brother Stuart reportedly interrupted the conference, calling Dr Ubani a “charlatan”, “killer” and “animal”.
Now a court in Lindau, Germany, has ruled that Mr Gray must pay three quarters of the legal costs, running into thousands of pounds, and write Dr Ubani a letter promising never to call him an animal again.
He has also been threatened with a £200,000 fine if he repeats the insult.
It shows the man has no integrity, no remorse
Mr Gray told the Daily Telegraph: “It makes me feel physically sick, it is quite hard to believe.
“We went to that conference because we were determined to make things safer for people – what we have done has changed the laws to make things safer across Europe.
“The General Medical Council has thanked us, the politicians have thanked us but now this. It shows the man has no integrity, no remorse.”
The disgraced doctor has since refused to return to the UK, where he has been struck off the medical register.
A European arrest warrant was issued by Cambridgeshire Police but could not be carried out because legal proceedings had begun in Germany.
Dr Ubani was charged with death by negligence at a court in Witten and given a nine-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay 5,000 euro (£4,100) costs but has since continued to practise. From Daily Express