Doctor jailed for nearly killing girlfriend by injecting her with drugs during exorcisms must now pay £50,000 to patient he secretly filmed while she was topless for his own sexual gratification
- Hossam Metwally, 61, was jailed for 14 and a half years in September 2021
A former doctor jailed for nearly killing his girlfriend by injecting her with drugs during a series of exorcisms has now been ordered to pay £50,000 to a patient he secretly filmed while she was topless.
Hossam Metwally, 61, was jailed for 14 and a half years in September 2021 after being convicted of endangering Kelly Wilson’s life, leaving her close to death with multiple organ failure.
He made dozens of video recordings of himself administering fluids through a cannula to Ms Wilson while chanting as part of a ‘dangerous perversion’ of the Islamic Ruqyah ritual, Sheffield Crown Court previously heard.
Prior to his sentencing, Metwally admitted unrelated counts of voyeurism against two female patients over taking pictures and moving footage of the women, without their knowledge and in a state of undress, when they attended for treatment.
One of these women, who cannot be named for legal reasons, brought a misuse of private information claim against him at the High Court in London earlier this year.
Former doctor Hossam Metwally has been ordered to pay £50,000 to a patient he secretly filmed while she was topless
He was jailed for 14 and a half years in September 2021 after being convicted of endangering his girlfriend Kelly Wilson’s (pictured) life, leaving her close to death with multiple organ failure
In a ruling on Friday, Mrs Justice Steyn said the woman was entitled to damages of £51,092, including money for her future psychological treatment.
The court was told Metwally would ask the woman to get changed into a medical gown before leaving the room but still recording her on hidden cameras.
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She told the High Court she was ‘totally shocked by what has happened to me’, that she felt ‘violated and vulnerable’ and said that her ‘trust in people has gone’.
In her judgment, Mrs Justice Steyn said: ‘The claimant was owed an obligation of trust.
‘The defendant breached that obligation of trust by repeatedly, covertly videoing the claimant while she was getting undressed, taking images of her naked from the waist upwards, and while she was being treated.
‘He obtained, retained and edited the footage for his own sexual gratification, continuing to do so years after the appointments.’
The judge continued that ‘as a direct consequence’ of Metwally’s actions, the woman was suffering from PTSD, struggled to leave the house and had experienced a recurrence of her depression.
Metwally did not attend the hearing and was not represented.
Metwally (pictured) made dozens of video recordings of himself administering fluids through a cannula to Ms Wilson
In May last year, a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel concluded he should be erased from the medical register after it ruled his fitness to practise was impaired because of his convictions.
Ms Wilson was found at Metwally’s home in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, on July 4, 2019, in a deep coma, on the brink of a cardiac arrest and with a fluid line inserted in her chest after engaging in an exorcism ritual the previous evening.
Dr Metwally, who worked at the Diana Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby, initially denied injecting anaesthetics into Ms Wilson during a previous eight-week trial at Sheffield Crown Court.
The earlier trial heard that he ‘fed’ Ms Wilson’s drug addiction and administered potentially lethal anaesthetic drugs to perform Muslim exorcism rituals known as Ruqya – a valid practice that an imam told the court would never involve drugs or sedation.
The father-of-four also ran his own pain clinic from his home in the town.
Metwally qualified as a doctor in Egypt and worked in Saudi Arabia before coming to the UK in 1996 and Grimsby in 1999.
He was struck off in May 2022.
Ruqya: Islamic ritual to cast out evil spirits
The process of Quranic healing in order to exorcise spirits can be divided into three stages.
The first includes removing any distractions, such as music instruments and golden jewelry.
The healer also removes all pictures in the room allowing angels to enter.
The healer then tells the client and the family, that everything happens by God’s will and that he is merely a mediator, also mentioning that other forms of healing, such as by sorcery, are not acceptable to Islam.
In the second stage, the healer determines if the client is possessed or not and tries to enter a dialogue with the spirit.
The healer might ask the spirit about type (Zar (red wind), ghosts (Arwah), jinn (genii), samum (devils), div), religion, sex or reason for possession. When he asks the client, instead of the spirit, about dreams and feelings involved of the dream.
After that, the healer cleans himself, the room, and asks the people in the room to do the same.
In the third stage, actual exorcism begins by reciting Quranic verses such as Al-Fatiha, Al Baqara, Al-Baqara 255, Al-Jinn and three Qul (Al-Ikhlas, An-Nas and Al-Falaq), depending on the type of spirit.
Other treatments include using honey and water, as a purification ritual to clean the soul and body from sins.
In a typical Islamic exorcism the treated person lies down while a white-gloved therapist places a hand on their head while reciting verses from the Quran.
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