Top Cosmetic Surgeon 'Changes Pictures Of Patients And Nurses' Faces To Porn Images'

A cosmetic surgeon hoarded a massive collection of explicit pornography in his consultation room – including pictures he had created with faces of patients and nurses pasted on to hardcore images, a tribunal was told.

Peter Tlusty, 57, worked in an exclusive practice in Belgravia in central London, and was a specialist in aesthetic procedures such as administering Botox and collagen fillers to private patients.

But when his secretive behaviour aroused suspicions, the hearing heard colleagues searched his office and the haul of pornography was discovered, including 16 filing cabinets filled with obscene magazines and folders with hundreds of manipulated images of patients and surgery staff in  X-rated poses.

He had also compiled diaries with league tables rating patients and staff on their looks.

Dr Tlusty appeared before the General Medical Council (GMC) yesterday accused of misconduct.

The hearing was told that Dr Tlusty, who worked at the exclusive Belgravia Surgery near Buckingham Palace, had manipulated one image to make it appear as if the surgery's receptionist, a nurse and a male patient were having sex. Lewd comments had also been scrawled on them.

The doctor, who lives in a £1.5million house near Wandsworth Common in South-West London with his wife and three daughters, had been warned in 2006 about his use of pornography after visiting a website which infected the surgery's computer system with a virus.

One of the partners at the practice, Dr David Parry, emailed colleagues warning them about the virus and said he intended to ask Westminster Primary Care Trust's IT department to trace its source.