Doctor 'banged crisp packet' after TV argument Outlining the case, Sara Lewis, counsel for the GMC, said the first alleged incident involved an auxiliary nurse. "She will say that during a tea break there was an exchange between herself and Dr Jabbal which started as a light-hearted exchange about the TV remote control," she said. Then Dr Jabbal without warning behaved towards her as charged. He grabbed her breast, shouted and swore at her and threw a cup of coffee over her. She would also say that he pushed a television from its stand during the course of the incident. The doctor is also said to have grabbed a packet of crisps from the nurse, and threatened to hit her, before another member of staff intervened. A second employee, a staff nurse, complained of the way he acted towards her between March 2006 and February 2007. At first he was "very critical" of her in front of colleagues, said the lawyer, before this "inappropriate behaviour" progressed to touching. On one occasion he grabbed the nurse's stomach and stopped her leaving the operating theatre, she said. The nurse eventually made a formal complaint. During the final alleged incident, in November 2007, he is said to have touched a nurse's breast while they were anaesthetising a patient in theatre. Dr Jabbal was dismissed for gross misconduct in December 2009, after the trust launched an investigation. However, he soon applied for an anaesthetics position at Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust, stating that he left Wishaw General due to a disagreement with management, Ms Lewis said. He went on to mislead interviewers that it involved allegations of assault against him for which there was no case to answer, she said. The first witnesses will give evidence tomorrow when the hearing - scheduled to last four weeks - continues.