'Deeply uncomfortable with the victim-blaming' Disgraced Lancashire hospital consultants struck off

The futures of two Lancashire-based disgraced top consultants at Blackpool Victoria Hospital have been decided, with Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panels striking them off the medical register, meaning they are prohibited from practising as doctors in the UK.

Consultant cardiothoracic surgeon Amal Krishna Bose, from Lancaster, was struck off after a jury found him guilty on June 19 2025 of 12 counts of sexual assault of colleagues between August 2017 and December 2022. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) found his conviction rendered him ‘fundamentally incompatible’ with continued registration.

Also struck off was former Blackpool Victoria consultant Aloaye Foy-Yamah, who initially only had his licence suspended for 12 months in March 2025 by an independent panel even after a tribunal found he had raped a woman. The case was investigated by Lancashire Police but no criminal charges were made and Foy-Yamah has now been struck off following an appeal.

Amal Krishna Bose

After the guilty verdict, disgraced heart surgeon Bose, 55, of Main Road in Thurnham near Lancaster, was jailed for six years at Preston Crown Court in September 2025. Cleared by a jury of two other counts of sexual assault, the prosecution said Bose was a "highly sexualised man" who touched colleagues inappropriately and whose banter was often laden with sexual innuendo.

Bose denied ever sexually assaulting any colleagues and said his behaviour amounted to "flirting", but the prosecution said Bose had a "God complex" and felt he could get away with anything. The surgeon was alleged to have groped various colleagues on the bottom and breast, put his hand inside another's dress and also flicked another's nipple.

Bose was also said to have told a colleague eating a lollipop "I've got something better for you to suck on." He is also alleged to have told another "I would love to tie you up". The court heard there was a WhatsApp chat group called "Cardiac Sluts”, but the prosecution claimed that Bose's behaviour went far beyond "banter" and his behaviour was upsetting and intimidating for staff.

The consultant surgeon’s previously-unblemished 30-year career and excellent surgical skills did not diminish the seriousness of his conviction, according to the the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service tribunal, which referenced the judge’s comments on the “predatory behaviour” Bose exhibited.

Aloaye Foy-Yamah

Foy-Yamah was working as a consultant in acute medicine when the alleged attack took place at his home in 2018. Police did not charge him but the MPTS concluded, on the balance of probabilities, that he had raped the woman, despite his denial.

The tribunal was told the doctor and victim knew each other. It heard she was lying on a sofa when the doctor began making sexual advances. The panel was told he then raped her.

The General Medical Council (GMC) had demanded Foy-Yamah be completely erased from the medical register, only for the MPTS to initially describe the incident as a ‘one-off’ and instead suspended his medical licence for 12 months.

The tribunal was accused of victim blaming and not properly assessing the doctor's risk to young women, leading to the GMC appealing the decision to the High Court, saying it was ‘deeply uncomfortable with the victim-blaming narrative from the tribunal’ and considered the determination lacked a proper assessment of the seriousness of the misconduct.

Following the appeal, the High Court ordered a fresh hearing and the new tribunal found that, because Foy-Yamah would pose a risk to women were he to resume his career, there was no option but to strike him off.