Dr Apostolos Zavlanos (36) was suspended from practising medicine in May last year after he knocked four years off his true age, made up qualifications and pretended to be the member of a college which did not exist.

But the General Medical Council (GMC) on Tuesday decided the Greek gynaecologist was fit to practise again following a review at London's Old Bailey court.

Dr Zavlanos worked at the Lynn hospital between April 2003 and August 2004, when he left for a position at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

He claimed he had passed the first exam for membership of the of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG) in 2004 and that he had a diploma in the Faculty of Family Planning (DFFP).

The doctor wrote the dishonest information in a job application to Grampian University Hospitals, Aberdeen, and continued to lie to staff to back up his story, the hearing heard.

He also claimed to be a member of the Greek College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology when no such place exists.

At his misconduct hearing last year, Dr Zavlanos claimed he had fiddled his date of birth because the 1975 date was "luckier" than 1971. He was due to sit the MRCOG exam within months and said he claimed to already have the qualification because he "always passed exams first time." The GMC banned Dr Zavlanos from working as a doctor for 12 months after finding his misconduct to be "dishonest and misleading" and he has since been working in Greece.