NHS Doctor Jailed After Defrauding King's College Hospital of £268K On 4 November 2025, Richard Akinrolabu — a 61-year-old trust grade specialist registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology at Princess Royal University Hospital, part of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Orpington, Kent — was sentenced to three years' imprisonment at Woolwich Crown Court after pleading guilty to four counts of fraud by false representation contrary to section 1 of the Fraud Act 2006. Between October 2018 and December 2021, Akinrolabu informed King's College Hospital that he was unfit to perform on-call and night shifts, triggering full sick-leave pay and forcing the trust to hire locum doctors to cover his roster. Simultaneously, he worked the same category of demanding night and on-call shifts as a locum at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, and Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust — without ever seeking or receiving permission for secondary employment. NHS Counter Fraud Authority investigators cross-referenced his absence records at King's College Hospital against payroll data obtained from all three external trusts, finding the same doctor recorded as unfit on the same dates he was clocked in and paid elsewhere. The scheme cost King's College Hospital more than £268,000 in combined salary and locum cover. Sentencing Akinrolabu, His Honour Judge David Miller told him: "You lied to occupational health, your colleagues and your employer. The public doesn't expect doctors to lie for personal gain." The fraud was identified only after King's College Hospital received a tip-off in 2021 that Akinrolabu had been working nights at Basildon Hospital — a deception that had remained invisible for over three years because no single trust had cause to compare notes with the others. Disclaimer: This video is a dramatization based on real events. Some visual content was created with artificial intelligence assistance. Some details have been fictionalized and all names have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved. - @thegeniusmanofficial