A family doctor falsely claimed to be a war hero while secretly running a bootlegging racket trading in black-market cigarettes. Alan Pollock, 50, now faces being struck off.
A medical practitioners’ tribunal was told how Pollock forged boarding passes so that his girlfriend, Jayne White, who worked at Gatwick airport, could buy cut-price cigarettes from duty-free shops and sell them on. White’s daughter, Lucy, 20, was also part of the racket.
Customs officers seized 3,000 Mayfair cigarettes after stopping Pollock and White at Gatwick in 2013.
Police later raided Pollock’s home in the village of Aylesford, Kent, and found a boarding pass template on his computer. He also had nearly 50 counterfeit railway tickets. Investigators established that he had accumulated £200,000 in his bank account