Judge sentences Jayant Patel to two-year wholly suspended jail sentence Jayant Patel at District Court. JAYANT Patel is free to leave the country after a judge closed a "lengthy and tragic chapter" in Queensland's history. Judge Terry Martin has sentenced former Bundaberg surgeon Jayant Patel to a two-year wholly suspended jail sentence. It means Patel will be free to leave the country. "This brings to an end a lengthy and tragic chapter in the history of Queensland," Judge Martin said. You have been heavily punished and I dare say you will continue to suffer the consequences of your stay in Queensland. There seems little doubt that your career is forever ruined. Of course, you are the author of all misfortune that resulted from your totally undeserved employment in Queensland. Mr Patel said outside court his had been a long and very difficult journey. "I'm pleased that it's over and I'll be going back to my life and my work," he said. And in this season of giving thanks, I'd like to thank my legal team... For the exceptional work that they've done. I'd like to thank the hundreds of well-wishers who I don't even know who stop me in the street, gave me words of encouragement and wished me well. And finally I'd like to thank all my friends and family for their selfless and unconditional love and support. He said his wife Kishoree would not be coming to join him ahead of his return home. Soon after Patel's sentencing, the Medical Board of Australia and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency issued a statement saying they had re-activated disciplinary action against him to "ensure the ongoing protection of the public." The Board said they had served Patel with a referral notice alleging the clinical care he had provided to "a number of patients" was below the standard reasonably expected; that he had twice provided false and misleading information relating to his applications for registration and that his actions amounted to unsatisfactory professional conduct. The referral recommences disciplinary action in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal which will hear the medical board's case against Patel. The board will ask QCAT to prevent Patel from seeking registration as a medical practitioner in Australia. Patel has not been registered or able to practise in Australia since April 2005. QCAT is yet to set a date for the hearing. The sentencing of Mr Patel comes after Queensland's Director of Public Prosecutions, Tony Moynihan, withdrew charges against Patel for the unlawful killing of two patients and one of causing another grievous bodily harm last week. The decision comes after the DPP failed to secure convictions against Patel within the last year for the manslaughter of patient Mervyn John Morris, 75, and the grievous bodily harm of Ian Rodney Vowles, 66. Patel, 63, pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud relating to him dishonestly obtaining registration as a doctor and dishonestly obtaining employment in the Brisbane District Court on Friday. Crown prosecutor Peter Davis QC said Patel had entered into an agreement with the Oregon board of medical examiners where his license was restricted and he was subject to disciplinary action in September, 2000. He said that as a result of the restrictions in Oregon, he was "struck off" from the roster of surgery by the New York board of medical examiners. Mr Davis said Patel had "attracted attention by virtue of complaints in New York" and was ultimately struck off "by agreement." He said the restrictions prohibited Patel from performing any major surgeries, including abdominal perineal resections, oesophageal surgery and gastric surgeries. Mr Davis said Patel then applied through an employment service for a job as a Senior Medical Officer at Bundaberg Hospital and failed to disclose the restrictions on him in the United States in November, 2002. By December that same year, Patel was offered the job. "It has been conceded by the plea that had persons in Queensland Health known of his past, then the job would not have been offered to him," Mr Davis's said. He said the medical registration system was a scheme set up to maintain standards of doctors and ensure those who worked in Queensland were of "a particular standard and do not come with the type of restrictions like the defendant had." Mr Davis said Patel deliberately failed to disclose his suspensions overseas and it was "untrue and a manifestly dishonest thing to do." He said the potential for damage was "enormous." Barrister Ken Fleming QC, for Patel, said Patel had faced extradition proceedings to Australia and had lived in Queensland for 5.5 years in "very difficult circumstances." He said public vilification meant Patel had effectively lived in isolation. He said the defendant worked "exceedingly hard" during his time at Bundaberg Hospital and was "committed entirely" to his work there. Patel remains on bail in a unit at the Emporium in Fortitude Valley which is paid for by the state. Patel was convicted of unlawfully killing and maiming multiple patients after a 14-week trial in 2010 and sentenced to seven years in jail, with a non-parole period of 3.5 years. But the conviction was quashed by the High Court after a hearing in August, 2012. Patel was released from the Wolston Correctional Centre after serving two-and-a-half years and a new trial was ordered. additional reporting by Janelle Miles