A GP has been facing inquiry after his patient who got a mole removed from him, died of skin cancer.

William Cashell, 36, is a resident of Rush, north Dublin. He got his mole removed in February 2007, as he was finding it unbearable. But in September, he got to know that he was suffering from skin cancer. He was diagnosed with the disease after he went for a check-up of a lump that had formed under his armpit. After following the treatment the man died in 2008.

His GP, who had got his mole removed, attended a hearing yesterday and has been charged with not working efficiently as he did not followed the proper procedure of biopsy and did not scrutinized the ailment of the patient adeptly.

Dr. Peter Peng-Cheng Ting, aged 51, stated, "If he had believed a mole he removed from the patient's back in February 2007 was sinister, he would have referred the patient to a dermatologist".

Dr. Peter notified that he had not kept any records of the procedure undertaken at the time of Cashell's treatment. He added that it was really depressing for him that he had been facing such accusations which have questioned his ability and performance.