Amandeep Goma
Introduction
Amandeep Goma is a dentist whom a GDC Professional Conduct Committee erased from the register in October 2023 after convictions for controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate relationship and for criminal damage and two assaults by beating. He had pleaded not guilty and was convicted at trial; at the regulatory hearing he denied the offences again, and the committee found there was no evidence of proper recognition or true remorse, concluding that erasure was required given the seriousness of the convictions .
Background Information
The convictions were proved to the committee by certificates of conviction, which under the GDC’s rules are conclusive proof of the offences. The first was for engaging in controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship between 7 March 2020 and 15 November 2020, contrary to section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015. On 30 November 2021, at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Goma was also convicted of criminal damage on 30 June 2021 and of two counts of assault by beating, on 18 June 2021 and 30 June 2021. The GDC’s case was that the offences were serious because of the breach of trust inherent in the intimate relationship between Goma and each complainant .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Goma admitted the regulatory charges on the basis of the convictions but continued to deny the criminal conduct itself. The GDC’s counsel told the committee his denial of the offences was inadequate as an explanation, noting he had offered as part of the reason that there were other allegations, not part of the criminal charges, which he did not accept. Her submission was that there was no evidence of proper recognition and true remorse, that the offending was serious and sustained, and that the committee could not be satisfied the conduct had been entirely remediated .
In mitigation, Goma’s representative pointed out that he had been convicted and had not appealed, had taken steps including attending courses, and had set out in a written statement his understanding that his past behaviour was unacceptable. The committee was told he accepted his fitness to practise was currently impaired. His registration had already been under an interim suspension since 2021 by order of an Interim Orders Committee, meaning he had not been practising on the register’s strength while the case waited to be heard .
The committee weighed whether the behaviour could be remedied. It accepted this was difficult but not impossible, and said genuine, meaningful reflection would require a full understanding of the impact of his behaviour on his victims and on public confidence in the profession, together with demonstrated remorse and steps to prevent recurrence. On sanction, the GDC invited the committee to conclude the case by directing erasure given the seriousness of the convictions — submissions the committee accepted .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The committee found Goma’s fitness to practise impaired by reason of his convictions and directed that his registration be erased. MedicWatch’s record of the case notes the Professional Conduct Committee decision and its direction of erasure following the October 2023 hearing into the conviction charges . The determination records the imbalance between his professions of remediation and his continued denial of the offences — the factor the GDC argued showed his insight could not be relied on .
Current Status
Goma was erased from the dentists register with an immediate suspension order, the committee holding it would be inconsistent not to impose one following its decision; his pre-existing interim order was revoked as the new regime took effect. Unless he appealed, the erasure would take effect 28 days after deemed service, with the immediate suspension remaining in place during any appeal. MedicWatch lists him among dentists struck off in 2023 and carries no appeal outcome on his determination page .
Impact on Their Career/Life
Criminal convictions for coercive control and violence against partners, sustained denials of guilt, and a regulatory finding of no true remorse combined to end Goma’s UK dental registration. The case illustrates the regulator’s settled position that convictions of this kind — proven breaches of trust in intimate relationships — are treated as fundamentally incompatible with clinical practice, whatever professional skills the practitioner retains. The published determination records the erasure as the outcome the seriousness of the convictions required .