Health and Care Professions Council determination — substantive hearing
HCPTS strikes Amine El-Bacha off after sexual assault convictions
The physiotherapist was jailed for three assaults on a patient and showed no insight or remediation.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 12 September 2024 · Updated 23 September 2026
Erasure (struck off the register)
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Concerning Amine El-Bacha, physiotherapist (Health and Care Professions Council PH67903).
Decision date: 12 September 2024 · Hearing started 11 September 2024 and ended 12 September 2024
In plain English
The HCPTS panel struck physiotherapist Amine El-Bacha off after his conviction for three sexual assaults on a patient during treatment. He received a three-year prison sentence and indefinite protective restrictions. The panel found no insight or remediation, a high repetition risk and conduct fundamentally incompatible with professional registration.
Charges
Mr El-Bacha was convicted of three sexual assaults against a service user during physiotherapy treatment and sentenced to three years' imprisonment, indefinite sex-offender registration and an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
Findings
The panel found current impairment on personal and public grounds. Mr El-Bacha continued to assert his innocence, had shown no insight or remediation and presented a high repetition risk. His deliberate, premeditated abuse of a vulnerable patient was fundamentally incompatible with registration, making striking off the only sufficient sanction.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Aggravating factors
Abuse of a position of trust; a level of planning and premeditation, as stated by the sentencing judge; predatory behaviour as described by the probation officer; absence of insight; absence of remorse; emotional harm caused to the service user.
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