A doctor with a history of four motoring offences – including drink-driving – has escaped being struck off – after a medical tribunal decided there was not ‘significant’ risk of him repeating his behaviour.
Dr Murray Will, 37, most recently was caught almost three times the drink-drive limit in a Tesco car park in Glasgow.
He was caught at 96mph speeding on a dual carriageway in 2014. This is the latest in his long list of motoring infractions.
He was seen driving with a large-screen mobile phone in his hand, and police arrested him. He was fined £150 and banned from driving for six months at Ayr Sheriff Court.
Dr Will was fined £300 and given six penalty points in February 2011 after he fell asleep while driving at around 60mph on the M77 near Glasgow. Both his vehicle and another vehicle were damaged when Dr Will hit them.
Officers in unmarked cars observed him accelerate towards underground parking areas during the latest offence.
Recently, Dr Murray Will, 37 years old, was caught nearly three times the amount of drink-drive limit
His previous cases showed him driving at 96mph, and he used his smartphone to control his car’s steering wheel.
They pulled up alongside him, and he began to slowly reverse into a concrete bollard.
The police asked him to exit his vehicle and noticed that his eyes were cloudy and his speech was slow and blurred.
The breathalyzer read 58 microgrammes in 100 millilitres. The legal limit for alcohol consumption is 22.
Will appeared in Glasgow Sheriff Court last November and was convicted of drink-driving on November 2020.
He was banned from driving for 15 months and fined £335.
Will from Glasgow said that he was aware he exceeded the limit. However, he believed he could ‘chance’ it and got behind a wheel.
This doctor is currently working as a general practitioner at Larkhall, Lanarkshire’s Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS).
Decision not to strike him off was made at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service
His’reckless disregard’ for others was what was called him out.
However, the panel decided that he should be suspended for six months even though he was deemed’reprehensible.
The MPTS decided that he was not incompatible with being on the Register and endorsed him.
Ijeoma Omambala, chair of the MPTS Tribunal said that the tribunal believed that suspension would be deterrent and send the message to doctors and other health professionals about the behavior considered unacceptable for registered physicians.
“It was noted that Dr Will had been convicted of driving offences in the past, but none involved alcohol.
“There’s no evidence that Dr Will has resorted to similar behavior since his conviction. In these circumstances Dr Will is considered not at risk.
“It considered Dr Will’s evolving insight, supportive family members, professional colleagues, and steps taken to remedy his impairment caused by his conviction to be protection factors.