A CHIROPODIST is facing a public hearing into charges that he made inappropriate remarks and comments to a colleague while working as a locum at Bournemouth and Poole Community Health Service Trust.

Raymond Wisson, of Worcestershire, is understood to strongly deny the accusations.

He is alleged to have told the colleague on April 20 2009: “Women are dirty” and showed her a picture on his mobile telephone of a woman in a bikini in the changing room of a shop.

It is further claimed that when asked how he had taken the picture, he said words to the effect that he could go where he liked.

During the same conversation, Mr Wisson is said to have showed the colleague a pornographic video of a teenage girl and claimed to have had a relationship with a “well-developed” 13-year-old girl, boasting that he had told her the facts of life and “techniques”.

He is also accused of saying that his colleague looked like |a “smutty girl”, and suggesting that he could obtain drugs because he lived with a doctor.

A three-day hearing is due to start today before the conduct and competence committee of the Health Professions Council in London.

The committee will decide whether the allegations, if upheld, constitute misconduct and impair Mr Wisson’s fitness to practise.

Mr Wisson is currently subject to an interim order banning him from being directly involved with treating female patients.