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'Sheer Greed': Doctor and Husband Sold Stolen PPE During Pandemic
SCOTLAND, JUL 18 – Dr Attiya Sheikh and husband Omer earned nearly £8,000 selling stolen PPE during NHS shortages in 2020, receiving 10-month jail sentences for breaching public trust.
- Attiya Sheikh, a doctor from Glasgow, and her husband Omer were each sentenced to 10 months in jail at Paisley Sheriff Court for illegally selling NHS personal protective equipment online during the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
- In July 2020, an investigation was launched following allegations that a couple was involved in the theft and resale of NHS PPE through four eBay accounts linked to them, which led to a police raid on their home in October 2020.
- Police found 121 boxes of gloves and face masks in the converted attic of the couple’s Thornliebank home, and prosecutors said the couple made almost £8,000 selling the PPE which was crucial during a severe shortage.
- Procurator Fiscal Faye Cook called this a 'particularly egregious crime' where Dr Sheikh 'betrayed public trust at a time of acute need,' while advocates confirmed both defendants accept full responsibility and expressed genuine remorse.
- The couple’s early guilty plea reduced the maximum 12-month sentence to 10 months each, and Dr Sheikh now faces interim conditions on her medical license pending a GMC investigation.
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Doctor and husband who sold PPE stolen from NHS on eBay during pandemic jailed
A sheriff said the PPE was sold out of sheer greed at "a time when the world was in a heightened state of fear and anxiety at the start of the COVID pandemic. The NHS was facing an unprecedented crisis".
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Doctor and husband who sold PPE stolen from NHS during pandemic jailed
Attiya and Omer Sheikh carried out the offence in 2020.
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