Struck off GP 'attempted to choke woman during sex'

A Cambridge-educated GP who was struck off after using his surgery for a series of flings attempted to choke a woman during sex, she claimed yesterday.

Self-confessed ‘untreated sex addict’ Thomas Plimmer, 41, ‘started squeezing my throat’ when she invited him home after they met on a dating app in 2017, she alleged.

She told the BBC she had to ‘dig my hand behind his hand’ before he would loosen his grip, adding: ‘I was worried he was going to cut off my airway.’

The claims come after Plimmer was struck off the medical register earlier this year after a string of women made lurid allegations about how he used his medical practice in Swindon, Wiltshire for sex during working hours.

He also swapped innuendo-filled messages with a female colleague before they embarked on weekly sexual encounters in his consulting room.

Plimmer - who the Mail has revealed previously spoke openly about his battle with sex addiction and having slept with almost 90 women – is currently appealing against being struck off. 

During a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing which began last year, Plimmer admitted having sex with two women during work hours at his surgery in 2020 after meeting them on a dating app.

He remained in a relationship with one while secretly living with a third woman whom he also met though a dating site.

Plimmer also admitted sending unsolicited photos of his penis to a fourth woman which he took at work.

And he admitted swapping 5,000 plus innuendo-filled messages with a married colleague with whom he embarked on weekly sexual encounters in his consultation room.

The panel accepted that Plimmer threatened a sixth woman after she found out he had other girlfriends, saying he would ‘slit her throat’.

Plimmer admitted he had ruined lives by ‘lying and cheating’ but insisted he had been seeking ‘companionship’.

However he was struck off the medical register in April and branded ‘an accomplished liar’.

It emerged that Dr Plimmer’s first job as a qualified GP, in Cambridgeshire, ended under a cloud after he was found to have been viewing porn and browsing adult dating sites, looking for sex, on his work computer.

He went on to speak openly in a national newspaper about his sex addiction, confessing to being serially unfaithful and saying that Sex Addicts Anonymous ‘saved my life’.

Now a former partner has told the BBC that on their second date at her home, when she opened the door, Plimmer ‘came in and he pushed me up against the wall and had his hand on my throat’.

She said the now-disgraced ex-GP also kissed her ‘forcefully’ but apologised when she objected.

But later when they were having sex, she said: ‘He was behind me and grabbed hold of my throat and started squeezing my throat, which again was not something that had been discussed or that I was comfortable with.’

She claimed she had to ‘dig’ her hand under his before he let go, adding: ‘I was worried he was going to cut off my airway.’

She also alleged that Plimmer sent her pictures and videos of him having sex with more than one woman.

Feeling ‘disgusted’, she blocked him and complained to his surgery, she said, later discovering his article confessing to being a sex addict.

Plimmer is currently advertising ‘therapeutic’ services through a company he set up based in his Gloucester home called ‘Mind Body and Emotional Wellness with Dr Matthew’ – his middle name.

According to the BBC, during an hour-long consultation costing £80, he advised a journalist posing as a patient with insomnia to buy melatonin off the internet, despite it being a prescription-only medication in the UK.

He has since updated the website to say he is ‘no longer working as a registered doctor’.

According to the BBC, Plimmer said that under legal advice he was unable to comment about either allegation due to an ongoing appeal against being struck off.

A spokeswoman for the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland which represented Plimmer said he had ‘no comment to make’ about either the choking claim or the sleeping tablet allegation.