Helen and Mike Webberley will continue to dispense drugs online from a base in Malaga

A private gender clinic that gave sex-change hormones to a 12-year-old is moving to Spain after both its doctors were suspended by the General Medical Council (GMC).

It will continue to dispense the drugs online from its new base in Malaga in what critics called a “dangerous loophole” in regulation.

Mike Webberley, a GP from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, was suspended on Friday after the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service heard his work for three young trans patients fell below the standards of care expected of a registered doctor, and is currently banned from working in the UK.

His wife, Helen, had earlier been suspended after being criminally convicted in October for operating an unlicensed clinic. Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, the regulator, said she posed a “risk to patient