A tribunal is considering sanctions against a Nottingham doctor after he denied drink driving claims to a health body but then pleading guilty to the offence in court. He originally claimed to the General Medical Council he was simply chewing a betel nut and was not already drunk when buying spirits from a shop.
Vivek Goel was subsequently banned from driving for three years on January 3 2020 at Nottingham Magistrates' Court after being almost three times over the limit. Goel, of Derwent Close, Gamston at the time of the sentencing, admitted driving with 99 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, 64 over the limit. As well as the driving ban, he was also ordered to do 120 hours of community work.
Goel is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon who often travelled to hospitals in Mansfield, Wigan and Doncaster. He works as a locum on six-month contracts, and the offence, along with another motoring conviction for failing to provide a specimen in 2018, were committed after the contracts had ended.
