ABH student is suspended

An optometry student from Wetherby in Yorkshire has been suspended for three months by a General Optical Council fitness to practise committee following a conviction for actual bodily harm.

Nathan Sivajoti was convicted at Harrogate Magistrates Court on March 5, 2009 for what committee chair Lady Margaret Wall described as a 'serious and nasty' offence on an 'entirely innocent member of the public'.

Sivajoti, who had been drinking, took part in an attack on a young man at 4am, kicking him twice while he was lying on the ground, while a 19-year-old undergraduate.

Finding his fitness to practise impaired, Lady Wall said that this was 'unacceptable behaviour in anyone and not to be tolerated in a student member of a caring profession'.