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Garlic oil was one of the substances Mohsen Ali offered as a treatment

A doctor has been struck off after running an unregistered clinic and charging cancer patients £15,000 for bogus "cures" with garlic oil and vitamin C.

Dr Mohsen Ali - who had his medical licence withdrawn in 2015 - treated two patients with prostate and ovarian cancer in 2018 from a Leicester "council house", which was described as being in a "squalid" condition.

He told the patients the NHS was "killing them" and "big pharma companies were making money", a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing was told.

Ali's practices came to light after a patient emailed Leicestershire Police, which then informed the General Medical Council (GMC).

Ali graduated from Cairo University in 1994 and began practising in the UK in 2001, and held a full medical licence from 2004 until its withdrawal in January 2015.

MPTS proceedings began on 1 December 2025, with a…