Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service determination — restoration hearing
Restoration to the register refused
The regulator’s term: restoration refused
What does “restoration to the register refused” mean?
A practitioner who had been struck off applied for restoration to the register and the application was refused. The original strike-off remains in effect.
Concerning Maduka Ogwueleka, doctor (General Medical Council 5206952).
Decision date: 18 July 2025 · Hearing started 14 July 2025 and ended 18 July 2025
In plain English
The MPTS tribunal considered a restoration case for Maduka Ogwueleka. It recorded the decision on impairment as not recorded and refused the doctor's restoration application. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Charges
The MPTS PDF background states: 4. Dr Ogwueleka’s name was originally erased from the Medical Register for a conviction, following a Fitness to Practice Panel which took place on 28 and 29 July 2014 (‘the 2014 Panel’). In March 2013, Dr Ogwueleka's wife was driving XXX whilst unlicensed and uninsured. During that journey she collided with a parked car. Later that day, she returned to the damaged car and spoke to the owner. The owner wanted to make a claim via the insurance. Dr Ogwueleka then told the owner that it was him who had been driving at the time of the collision. The owner of the damaged car reported matters to the police. The police sent out a routine form to the registered keeper of the car involved, Dr Ogwueleka, asking the registered keeper to provide information as to who was driving at the time of the collision. Dr Ogwueleka completed that form stating that he had been driving. Following further inquiries by the police and statements from witnesses, it was suggested that Dr Ogwueleka was not the driver of the car. He was subsequently arrested and interviewed about the incident. In interview Dr Ogwueleka repeated his claim that he had been driving the car at the time of the collision. Dr Ogwueleka was later charged with the offence of perverting the course of justice. Record of Determinations – Medical Practitioners Tribunal MPT: Dr OGWUELEKA 3 5. Dr Ogwueleka appeared before the Maidstone Magistrates Court and entered a plea of not guilty. The case was then committed to the Crown Court for trial. At trial Dr Ogwueleka denied that he had perverted the course of justice and maintained that he had been the driver of the car at the time of the collision. On 13 February 2014 Dr Ogwueleka was convicted by the jury of ‘doing an act tending and intending to pervert the course of public...
Findings
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal considered a restoration case for Maduka Ogwueleka. The detail page records impairment as not recorded and the tribunal refused the doctor's restoration application.
Source
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