A dispensing optician jailed for six years six months by Liverpool Crown Court for 'very grave' sex offences and assault, has been struck off by the General Optical Council.
Leo Martin Threlfall, 47, was sentenced on December 20 last year after he admitted two counts of sexual assault on a female. Threlfall, who was also ordered to remain on the sex offenders register for life, was struck off after a GOC disciplinary hearing which was held in private in London earlier this week.
No further details of offences were revealed but during the hearing, Barbara Hewson, representing Threlfall, gave 'the particular circumstances of the offences and of Threlfall himself including his background and behaviour since the offences'.
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