his offending involved "potentially 2,000 victims".
A porn addict doctor who was jailed for secretly filming women taking showers and having sex through a tiny camera hidden in a toothbrush has been struck off the medical register.
The offences spanned Dr Vinesh Godhania’s entire medical career from 2012, when he was still a medical student, through to 2020.
Dr Godhania also accessed pornographic and other sexually explicit websites more than 19,400 times between January and November 2020.
He was arrested after cyber crime officers became aware he had been paying to use a data breach search engine.
Dr Godhania admitted seven counts of recording a person doing a private act and eight counts of causing a computer to perform function with intent to secure/enable unauthorised access.
He was subsequently jailed for two years and eight months in November 2021.
Dr Godhania was made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and placed on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.
The doctor has now been struck off the medical register following a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.
A panel heard that Dr Godhania qualified in 2012 and worked in various hospitals before leaving the profession to begin working at his parents’ tobacconist shop in 2018.
Between 2012 and 2020, he used a “combination of surreptitiously placed cameras in the bathrooms and toilets of the homes he has lived in” to secretly film women having sex, taking showers and using the bathroom.
The victims included one member of the public filmed at a hospital, professional colleagues and 17 identified victims of voyeurism at the doctor’s home.
Evidence also found data had been stolen from the iCloud accounts of more than 100 people.
A search of Dr Godhania’s home found folders containing stolen data from 23 colleagues and credentials of 160 victims.
All the victims were adults and “almost exclusively female”.
He had “sustained access” to a website used by hackers to steal intimate and sexual images from iCloud accounts after leaving the profession.
St Albans Crown Court also heard that his offending involved “potentially 2,000 victims”.
One victim impact statement read:
“When you go to hospital you are very vulnerable, you naturally trust the professionals dealing with you and certainly do not expect this violation.
“I feel uncomfortable and unfortunately this incident will change my view of people in a position of trust and will stay with me for a long time.
“I believe I will be more cautious and anxious in the future when dealing with people on a similar basis, especially when sharing information with others.”
The tribunal heard that Dr Godhania’s offending was “ongoing for a minimum of eight years and increased in seriousness over time”.
In a letter to the sentencing judge, Dr Godhania said his “compulsive viewing of pornography had begun over 20 years ago”.
The doctor also told probation services that he knew he had issues since the age of 16 and described them as an “addiction”, but made no attempt to seek help.
In its ruling, panel chair Melissa Coutino said Dr Godhania “abused his position of trust” and that his actions were “pre-planned, deliberate and sophisticated and went on for many years”.
The report said:
“The Tribunal concluded that Dr Godhania’s sexual misconduct was particularly serious.”
“It took place over a prolonged period of time, was extremely serious and impacted on the privacy and dignity of patients, colleagues and members of the public.
“Dr Godhania’s offending behaviour engaged all three limbs of the overarching objective and amounted to a significant breach of principles set out in GMP.
“The Tribunal concluded that given the seriousness, sophistication, scale and nature of Dr Godhania’s actions, his behaviour was fundamentally incompatible with continued registration.”
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