Baraa Almasri

Introduction

Baraa Almasri is a former doctor registered with the General Medical Council (GMC 7645372) whose career ended in erasure from the medical register. On 10 March 2026, a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) tribunal, sitting at a substantive hearing that had opened on 2 March 2026, found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct and directed that his name be erased from the register — the sanction commonly known as being struck off. The tribunal found that, between January 2019 and December 2020, he exchanged WhatsApp messages with a man later sentenced to life imprisonment for grievous bodily harm offences, and that his messages were capable of encouraging or assisting those offences. The outcome is recorded by MedicWatch, an independent record of UK healthcare regulator decisions.

Background Information

The case arose from the criminal career of another man, referred to in the determination only as Mr A. According to the allegation put before the tribunal, Mr A had been convicted of criminal offences as a result of his involvement in illegal activities: conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, five counts of GBH with intent, and acquiring, using or possessing criminal property. The tribunal noted that Mr A’s activities were so serious that he received a life sentence.

The allegation against Dr Almasri was not that he committed acts of violence himself. It was that, between 19 January 2019 and 5 December 2020, he received WhatsApp messages from Mr A informing him of those activities and sent messages engaging in conversation about them; that his messages were capable of encouraging and/or assisting the commission of one or more of those offences; that he knew one or more of the activities were illegal; that he failed to inform the police or any other relevant authority; and that he failed to cooperate with a formal inquiry by not providing the police with pin codes for his electronic devices when requested. The MPTS heard the matter at a substantive hearing which began on 2 March 2026 and ended on 10 March 2026.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Allegations vs. findings. The findings are regulatory findings by an MPTS tribunal on the civil standard (the balance of probabilities). No criminal conviction is recorded in the determination.

The tribunal found all paragraphs of the allegation proved. It determined that Dr Almasri’s WhatsApp exchanges with Mr A over more than a year were capable of encouraging and/or assisting the commission of one or more of the offences for which Mr A was convicted, and that Dr Almasri knew the activities were illegal, failed to report them, and failed to cooperate with the police investigation. It went on to find that his conduct amounted to serious professional misconduct that fell far short of the standards expected of a registered medical practitioner under Good Medical Practice.

In aggravation, the tribunal noted that Dr Almasri’s actions and omissions were persistent and repeated over a significant length of time, between 19 January 2019 and 4 December 2020. It observed that he did not intervene, did not report the matters, and did not discourage Mr A; and that when the criminal investigation was undertaken, he refused to cooperate by not providing his pin codes for his electronic devices. The tribunal also identified a persistent lack of insight, in that Dr Almasri provided no engagement, reflection or remediation.

On impairment, the tribunal concluded that all three limbs of public protection were engaged, that there was a substantive risk of repetition given the absence of any insight or remediation, and that Dr Almasri’s fitness to practise is currently impaired by reason of misconduct.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The direct consequence was the erasure direction itself: having found impairment, the tribunal directed that Dr Almasri’s name be erased from the medical register. Erasure removes the practitioner from the register entirely, so he is no longer permitted to practise medicine in the UK. The tribunal’s reliance on all three limbs of public protection, together with its finding of a substantive risk of repetition given the absence of any insight or remediation, meant the findings carried the regulator’s strongest language about the need to keep him off the register.

The determination now forms part of the permanent public record of GMC/MPTS decisions, and independent record services such as MedicWatch document the outcome against his name and registration number; MedicWatch added the case to its record on 27 April 2026. For a doctor, that public trail is consequential in practical terms: any employer, agency or member of the public checking his registration encounters the erasure and the misconduct findings that produced it.

Current Status

As of the decision date of 10 March 2026, Baraa Almasri stands erased from the GMC medical register — struck off, in common parlance. Being struck off removes the practitioner from the register, and he is no longer permitted to practise medicine in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite. Any future review would have to contend with the tribunal’s finding that, in the absence of any insight or remediation, there was a substantive risk of repetition.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The erasure ends Dr Almasri’s medical career in the UK. Removal from the register means he cannot practise as a doctor, and the tribunal’s findings make any early return unlikely: it found his actions and omissions were persistent and repeated over a significant length of time, that he provided no engagement, reflection or remediation, and that there was a substantive risk of repetition. The subject matter of the findings — messages with a man whose offences drew a life sentence, which the tribunal found capable of encouraging and/or assisting the commission of those offences, coupled with a failure to report and a refusal to give police his device pin codes — fell far short, in the tribunal’s determination, of the standards expected of a registered medical practitioner under Good Medical Practice. Whatever professional standing he retains elsewhere, the determination ensures the findings travel with his name in the public record of the profession.

Sources

• MedicWatch, “Baraa Almasri — Struck off the register · 10 March 2026”, 10 March 2026.source