Health and Care Professions Council determination — substantive hearing
HCPTS panel strikes off Muhammad Choudhary over terrorism convictions
An HCPTS panel struck radiographer Muhammad S G Choudhary off the register after finding his fitness to practise impaired following three terrorism-related convictions.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 20 October 2025 · Updated 23 September 2026
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Concerning Muhammad S G Choudhary, radiographer (Health and Care Professions Council RA096198).
Decision date: 20 October 2025 · Hearing started 20 October 2025
In plain English
The HCPTS panel found that radiographer Muhammad S G Choudhary's fitness to practise was impaired after convictions for providing money and arranging rifle scopes for a terrorist organisation. It found impairment on personal and public grounds, citing no evidence of remediation or professional insight and an ongoing risk of harm. The panel ordered his name struck from the register and imposed an 18-month interim suspension for any appeal.
Charges
On 11 January 2024 at the Central Criminal Court, the Registrant was convicted of 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 knowing they would be used for terrorism. It was alleged that his fitness to practise was impaired by reason of conviction.
Findings
The Panel found all three conviction particulars proved and found the Registrant's fitness to practise currently impaired on both the personal and public components. It concluded that the convictions were fundamentally incompatible with registration and ordered his name struck from the Register. It also imposed an interim suspension for the appeal period, subject to a maximum of 18 months.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
The Registrant had no fitness to practise history; There was a plea of guilty in the criminal proceedings; In the criminal proceedings submissions were made to the Court on the Registrant’s behalf to the effect 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. However, the Panel had not been provided with further detail of these, or any submissions, on behalf of the Registrant in the HCPC proceedings.
Aggravating factors
The sentencing remarks referred to prolonged conduct involving deliberate planning and pre-meditation; No evidence showing insight of efforts to remediate had been provided for the HCPC proceedings; Risk of serious harm to members of the public.
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