SINGAPORE - The doctor who was convicted last year of physically assaulting his then girlfriend, leaving her with a brain haemorrhage and fractures, has been struck off the Register of Medical Practitioners. Clarence Teo Shun Jie was referred to the Singapore Medical Council's disciplinary tribunal last year, soon after his sentencing in June which saw him receive three years, six months and two weeks' jail, with four strokes of the cane and a fine of $4,000. Under the Medical Registration Act, a medical practitioner convicted of a crime that implies "a defect in character which makes him unfit to practise medicine" may be referred to the disciplinary tribunal. Punishment can include fines, suspensions and removal from the register of medical practitioners. Teo, who was a locum, physically assaulted his then girlfriend on several occasions in 2017. He had met the victim in February that year on a dating app. About a month later, during an argument, Teo assaulted her for the first time. He did it again later that month and a third time in August 2017, assaulting her in his flat. He locked her in a room and repeatedly assaulted her when she refused to have sexual intercourse with him...