A Scots GP who repeatedly turned up at the home and workplace of former patients has also admitted to accessing medical records and sending unwanted gifts and cash.
Neitu Jeyasingh ahead of her trial at Paisley Sheriff Court today admitted to “engaging in a course of conduct” which caused a man and his wife “fear or alarm” between March 2020 and August 2023.
We previously reported that Jeyasingh, of Main Street in Dunfermline, repeatedly attended various home addresses and work addresses uninvited, repeatedly entered Islay Crescent in Paisley without permission; persistently sent messages, videos and photographs to the man; repeatedly left unwanted gifts and repeatedly accessed the man’s medical records without consent.
On one occasion the couple both awoke to find the 52-year-old standing at the foot of their bed.
Over a period of over three years, the out-of-control doctor sent the couple around £30,000 in cash, unwanted gifts relating to the man's hobbies and messages and emails which contained religious quotes and extracts from bible passages.
Procurator fiscal depute Jason Stark today told Paisley Sheriff Court the man was involved in a rock climbing accident in 2018, on the Isle of Mull which caused him to attend his GP practice to obtain medical assistance.
This is where he met Jeyasingh who was employed as a GP within the practice.
He then began receiving multiple phone calls and WhatsApp messages per day from Jeyasingh predominantly enquiring about his welfare however he also began receiving messages from her about Christianity and preachers.
Jeyasingh continued to contact the couple on a daily basis, regularly attending their home and providing them with gifts of money, food and numerous other items like aftershave and the Bible.
Mr Stark explained: “They required to move back to Paisley in March 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“From March 1, 2020 and August 8, 2023 the contact by the accused escalated to hundreds of messages per day by this stage - around 300 to 400 messages per day, and at one point he had 1600 unread messages.
“He asked the accused to stop messaging him repeatedly, but she continued regardless with her telling him how she was doing all of this for him.
“Due to feeling the accused contact with him was controlling, he agreed to meet with her once a week to try and stem the messages and attendance at his home and work places.”
In 2021, the couple moved to Tayinloan and didn’t tell Jeyasingh as they “saw this as an opportunity to get away” from her.
Not long after moving to Tayinloan, he was approached by an operations manager at his workplace who gave him a package containing £120 cash, information relating to a diagnosis and unused boxer shorts.
The manager told him his doctor had dropped it off for him.
The couple moved again to Fortrose without telling Jeyasingh but she again found out where they were living.
In November 2022 Jeyasingh forced her way into the couple’s home saying she wanted to speak about God.
She entered the couple’s home again in June 2023 despite being told on “several occasions” not to.
Mr Stark added: “The couple provided information that during these countless visits by the accused she has brought them numerous gifts, including bibles, food and money.
“They estimate the accused gave them around £30,000 during the period of the libel and gifts including a bike and a kayak - hobbies pursued by the man.”
The General Medical Council was contacted to lodge a complaint regarding Jeyasingh.
An audit was carried out which discovered there were in total 115 accesses of the the man's records, accessing numerous medical letter and results of ECG's, recovered by the username associated with the accused.
Mr Stark added: “It was also observed that the accused had tried to launch West of Scotland clinic portal to potentially gain access to information from other health boards within the country.
“During this timeframe, she was not the complainers GP.”
Defence counsel John Scullion asked for background reports to be prepared.
Sheriff Gillian Craig adjourned sentence for the preparation of a criminal justice social work report and a restriction of liberty order assessment until June 15.
Jeyasingh’s bail was continued meantime.
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