Another practitioner found selling on eBay

Practice proprietors have been warned to review their internal security and perform regular stock checks after a practitioner was sentenced last Friday to 200 hours' community service for selling his employer's property on eBay.

This case comes just weeks after a dispensing optician was struck off for similar conduct (News, October 13).

Optometrist Sanjit Singh Bansal sold property from his employer, Niall O'Kane Optometrists in Strood, Kent, on the auction website but was found out when a manufacturer recognised the products featured. Bansal was spared jail in spite of what the Maidstone Crown Court judge described as his 'monstrous' behaviour.