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01 apr 2010




Secret sex and drug parties of professor who stole £150,000 from the NHS


Source: www.dailymail.co.uk  - Daily Mail online - UK


He was at the height of his academic career, a pillar of the community and a loving father of five. But yesterday another side of Professor Charles Butler was laid bare.


It was the side that saw him living a secret life in a seedy flat where he held bondage sex parties financed by money stolen from the NHS.
Yesterday Butler, 64, was jailed for three years for fraudulently claiming almost £150,000 on expenses in his role as a pharmaceutical expert to the Department of Health.

He claimed the money to pay for a locum to cover for him at his pharmacy business on the days he was advising the Government. In reality, there was no business. He had sold it for a massive profit years earlier.

When police investigating the fraud raided the two-bedroom flat Butler owned in Whitechapel, East London, they found a cache of drugs including cocaine, Ecstasy, crystal meth, cannabis and the ‘date-rape’ drug Rohypnol. They also found the flat filled with ‘sado-masochistic sexual apparatus’ and pornography.

It is understood that Butler, who was awarded the MBE in 2006, hosted sex game parties at the flat, unbeknown to his wife and children at the £1million family home in Reading.

A source who went to the flat after the raid said: ‘He made Caligula look like the Pope.’

Butler’s descent from eminent scientist, primary school governor and fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society to ‘common criminal’ was outlined at London’s Southwark Crown Court yesterday.

His wife of 38 years, Mary, 61, brushed away tears as Judge James Gledhill QC said: ‘The message must go out that those in public positions of trust and those who breach that trust will be dealt with by a serious jail sentence.’

The court heard that Butler had run a successful string of chemists across Berkshire, as well as becoming a visiting professor at Reading University.

With a CV ‘as impressive as it could be’, he started work as an expert adviser to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman for £300 a day in the 1990s.

Butler, a former chairman and governor of the College of Pharmacy Practice, claimed expenses for the cost of a locum pharmacist at his business for the days when he was working in London.

But he continued to claim after he sold the business in July, 2002. Over six years, until January last year, he claimed nearly £175,000, of which £148,800 was for the cost of the locum, at an average of £2,000 a month. He even paid tax on the fraudulent claims.

When the Healthcare Commission started to investigate Butler in late 2008, he tried to cover his tracks by creating bogus emails from the ‘locum’ he had named, Kathrine Billing.

She was actually a former employee who had not seen Butler since she resigned over a ‘clash of personalities’ 20 years ago.

Outside court Mrs Billing, 57, said: ‘I was furious and very shocked, scared and upset when the police contacted me. Charles Butler had stolen my identity and was using it for his own purposes.’

After police contacted Mrs Billing, who still works as a pharmacist, they raided both Butler’s Reading and London properties.
‘They battered open the door and the defendant was found inside in what had been specially adapted to be a sexual bondage venue,’ Deanna Heer, prosecuting, told the court.

A giant harness, hoist, chains, sex toys and hardcore pornography filled both bedrooms and the sitting room of the £150,000 flat.

Jeremy Lynn, for Butler, said: ‘After a lifetime of industry in public, private and charitable fields the defendant has thrown away his good character.
‘He has exposed himself to the truly horrible disgrace of the conviction for offences of dishonesty and drugs too.

'Perhaps more painfully for him, he has exposed his wife and five children - who are aged from 35 to 20 - to the extraordinary shock and shame of his offences and the discovery of the sordid and degrading goings-on in his flat in the East End.

‘It is no exaggeration to say that he went in the eyes of his family from being a pillar of the community, and a father who had always commanded love and respect, to being a common criminal.’

At an earlier hearing Butler had admitted one count of fraud, two counts of obtaining property by deception and 12 counts of possession of various Class A, B and C drugs.

He was sentenced to two-and-ahalf years in jail for dishonesty, and six months for the drugs charges.