A man who deceived patients in the city by posing as a doctor for 30 years has died.

The funeral of Muhammed Saeed, who was in his mid-70s, was held on Thursday at Carlisle Road mosque, just a stone's throw from the building in Darfield Street, Manningham, where he worked as a bogus doctor.

A spokesman for the mosque confirmed the funeral had taken place there.

His death was registered in Leeds last week.

Few of his former 3,000 unsuspecting patients will mourn Saeed, formerly of South View Road, East Bierley, who was jailed for five years in June 1992 when he was convicted of deception after a trial lasting nearly seven weeks at Leeds Crown Court.

Horror stories which emerged following his arrest include one patient suffering from a cold who was given a prescription and told to drink the medication twice a day. He was shocked to be told by the chemist the prescription was for shampoo.

In other incidents, a child was prescribed suppositories to be taken orally and a woman was prescribed a substance similar to creosote to be taken inside the mouth.

Saeed had claimed he held a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree from the Punjabi University in Lahore, Pakistan, gained in 1949, when in fact he had no more medical expertise than that of a backstreet herbalist in his Pakistani homeland.

The father-of-seven was exposed by his son, Mahmood Akhtar Saeed, in 1990, after the pair rowed over money. The son tipped off health officials and a subsequent police probe which covered Bradford, London, Scotland and Pakistan, revealed Saeed had adopted the credentials of a real doctor of the same name, who was still living in Pakistan.

Saeed came to Bradford from Pakistan, setting up his first practice in Drewton Street in 1960. He later moved to Darfield Street and was just 18 months from retirement when his 30-year sham was exposed.

He had planned a comfortable retirement in Pakistan on the £500,000 payments he received from the National Health Service.

But instead, following his release from prison, he is believed to have lived quietly in the Bradford area, with just a small circle of close friends and little contact with his family