Fake psychiatrist case puts thousands of doctors under scrutiny

Records of 3,000 medics to be reviewed after it emerged that conwoman practised for 22 years on false papers

The records of up to 3,000 doctors are being reviewed after it emerged that a woman worked as a NHS consultant psychiatrist for 22 years with fake qualifications before she was convicted of trying to defraud a patient.

Zholia Alemi, 56, was jailed for five years last month for faking an 87-year-old patient’s will as part of an attempt to inherit her £1.3m estate after they met at a dementia clinic in Workington, Cumbria in 2016.

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