{"id":555311,"date":"2026-04-28T16:14:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555311\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:14:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:14:03","slug":"leicester-gp-struck-off-over-vitamin-c-and-garlic-oil-cancer-cure-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555311\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester GP struck off over vitamin C and garlic oil cancer cure claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patient A, who had stage three prostate cancer, said in evidence Ali &#8220;laughed&#8221; on the phone and added prostate cancer was &#8220;easy to cure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sessions, the tribunal heard, were conducted at Ali&#8217;s semi\u2011detached property &#8211; described by Patient A&#8217;s wife as looking &#8220;like a council house&#8221; &#8211; and at times featured ozone therapy, a controversial alternative medical practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Public Health England (PHE) inspection found the property had a &#8220;number of visibly contaminated items surfaces and areas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added there was a &#8220;lack of material to suggest that basic infection prevention precautions were being taken&#8221;, and there was evidence &#8220;equipment was reused without decontamination&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The property was described as a shared residential and clinical space with &#8220;little to no differentiation between the two&#8221;, which was &#8220;dirty and unhygienic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Patient B &#8211; who had terminal ovarian cancer &#8211; died shortly after she stopped treatment with Ali but before the PHE and police investigations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her husband, described as Mr E, said they were told by NHS medics there was nothing else they could do, but Ali disputed that and claimed he could &#8220;cure her cancer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hearing was told Ali said to Patient B that &#8220;chemotherapy did not work&#8221; and instead of curing people, &#8220;the NHS was killing them, and the big pharma companies were making money&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tribunal found Ali &#8220;failed to obtain informed consent&#8221; from Patient B through the vitamin C, oxygenated water, sodium bicarbonate and ozone therapy treatments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An expert witness said no studies or clinical data suggested any of the treatments described given to the patients could cure any type of cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patient A, who had stage three prostate cancer, said in evidence Ali &#8220;laughed&#8221; on the phone and added&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-555311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}