A doctor who slapped a colleague on the bottom at an event should not be punished any further for the “isolated error of judgement”, a panel found. Dr Andrew Lim admitted the slap but she alleged he groped her between her legs, which he denied and was cleared of after a crown court trial in 2021.
At the time of the incident at the World Endurance Championship in April 2017, Dr Lim was the deputy chief medical officer at Castle Combe circuit in Wiltshire. He volunteered at events at Silverstone at weekends and had earlier served two five-year terms on the council of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.
He told a panel he had slapped the same woman’s bottom in a playful way at a previous event in 2015 or 2016 but the woman said she had no memory of that. The panel was told by other witnesses of a culture of “well-meaning banter”, which would be sexual and non-sexual, involving members of the volunteer medical team at Silverstone, NorthantsLive reports.
