DODGY doctor

The High Court confirmed this week the Medical Council's decision to strike off Doctor Emad Massoud. The Egyptian doctor who featured in The Fraudsters is serving time for his attempt to con insurance companies of €730,000 by faking his wife's breast cancer using her mother's tissue samples in 2002. The good doctor has fought the case every inch of the way from mounting a legal challenge to his initial arrest to his recent failed appeal against his conviction. Finally, the game is up - although most of the money was never traced after being invested in Romania and Egypt.