A top heart doctor who worked at the UN gave his teenage daughter a beating and labelled her a "prostitute" after she disobeyed his orders and went to a Halloween party, a medical tribunal heard on Thursday.

Dr Gohar Rahman, 57, grabbed the youngster by the hair, caned her on the bottom with his walking stick and then rained down punches on her head after he accused her of "bringing shame" on his family.

Police were called in after the daughter sent out a SOS message on social media using a Nintendo DS.

The daughter, then 17, had earlier gone to the party after falsely telling her father she would be home from a friend's house by 9.30pm.