Muhammad S G Choudhary
Introduction
Muhammad S G Choudhary is a radiographer who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number RA096198. On 20 October 2025, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) — at a substantive hearing on 20 October 2025 — found his fitness to practise currently impaired by reason of conviction, ordered his name struck from the register, and imposed an interim suspension for the appeal period, subject to a maximum of 18 months. The finding rested on three terrorism financing convictions recorded at the Central Criminal Court on 11 January 2024.
Background Information
The published record identifies Choudhary as a radiographer holding HCPC registration RA096198. The determination window does not name an employer or describe his training or career, and this page does not guess at them. MedicWatch — an independent record service that aggregates publicly published decisions of UK healthcare regulators without editorialising their findings — carries his case with erasure as the most recent published outcome, and directs readers to the official HCPC register for current registration details.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Convictions are facts; striking-off is the regulatory consequence. The three terrorism financing convictions below were recorded by the Central Criminal Court on 11 January 2024 and are stated here as established facts of a criminal court. What the HCPTS panel added on 20 October 2025 is a regulatory judgment — applying the civil standard, the balance of probabilities — on what those convictions mean for registration. The striking-off is not a further criminal penalty; it is the regulator’s response to convictions it found fundamentally incompatible with continued registration.
The convictions themselves were recorded at the Central Criminal Court on 11 January 2024. Choudhary was convicted of three terrorism financing offences: providing money to IEA knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect it would be used for terrorism; arranging for eight rifle scopes to be made available to IEA knowing they would be used for terrorism; and arranging for four rifle scopes to be purchased for export to IEA, likewise knowing they would be used for terrorism. It was on that criminal history that the HCPC’s case rested, the allegation being that his fitness to practise was impaired by reason of conviction.
Before the panel, the convictions were not contested facts: it found all three conviction particulars proved. Its assessment drew on both sets of proceedings. In mitigation it noted the plea of guilty in the criminal proceedings, that Choudhary had no fitness to practise history, and that submissions had been made to the sentencing court to the effect that he accepted the error of his ways, regretted what he had done, and understood that whatever wrongs might have been carried out by others, his conduct was not justified. The panel recorded, however, that it had not been provided with further detail of those submissions, or any submissions, on his behalf in the HCPC proceedings.
In aggravation, the sentencing remarks had referred to prolonged conduct involving deliberate planning and pre-meditation, no evidence showing insight or efforts to remediate had been provided for the HCPC proceedings, and the panel identified a risk of serious harm to members of the public. It concluded that the convictions were fundamentally incompatible with registration and that fitness to practise was currently impaired on both the personal and public components. Working up the sanctions ladder, it directed the Registrar to strike Choudhary off the register, protecting the position during any appeal with an interim suspension subject to a maximum of 18 months.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements from Choudhary or any other party. The concrete consequence is the striking-off direction of 20 October 2025 — the most serious sanction available to the panel, reached on its express conclusion that the convictions were fundamentally incompatible with continued registration. The practical effect was the loss of his HCPC registration and with it the legal ability to practise as a radiographer in the UK. The panel’s finding of an ongoing risk of serious harm to members of the public stands as its assessment of why no lighter outcome would do.
Current Status
Choudhary was struck off the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 20 October 2025, with an interim suspension for the appeal period subject to a maximum of 18 months. His MedicWatch profile records erasure as his most recent published outcome, notes his registration status as not yet verified, and directs readers to the official HCPC register for his current position. The published record does not state whether any appeal was pursued; the official register is where any change — appeal outcome, restoration or otherwise — would first appear.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Striking off ended Choudhary’s registration and his career as a radiographer in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. The case shows the regulatory system operating one step behind the criminal courts: the convictions carried their own sentence, and the tribunal’s task was not to re-examine the facts but to ask whether a practitioner convicted of terrorism financing could keep a registration whose premise is public trust. With the sentencing remarks recording prolonged, deliberately planned conduct and no evidence of insight or remediation before the panel, the route to a lesser sanction was effectively closed. Beyond the determination, the published record contains no information about his circumstances since the decision.