A black medical student is suing her college for £300,000 after claiming it was 'institutionally racist' in failing to stop alleged bullying by fellow medics.
Virginia Jibowu, 25, claims that fellow students at King's College medical school refused to eat or share a shower room with her.
She is suing the college - part of the University of London - for harassment, race discrimination and victimisation.
Miss Jibowu enrolled on a six-year medical degree course for students from disadvantaged backgrounds in 2002.
She said students on her course had to wear a special badge, which led to them being bullied by those on the regular five-year degree.
She shared digs with five others, including Richard Pinder, a leading Young Conservative.
In legal papers submitted to Central London County Court, she said: 'Mr Pinder asked me if black men were less intelligent than other people.
'He also said that he had stopped contacting a mutual friend because he had become 'too black'.
Miss Jibowu claimed three other white flatmates - including one called Emily Bowen - were 'hostile' during her hospital placement in Hastings, East Sussex, in 2006.
She alleged: 'The group refused to share the shower room with me and discussed rotas for the only other shower. Emily stated, 'We should introduce a virus into Africa to wipe out the continent and kill off all the black Africans so that we can move in'.'
Miss Jibowu had passed the first five years of study without failing an assessment and was due to start work last August as a doctor at Gwent Hospital in Wales.
She claims the college deliberately failed her from final exams and, without telling her, told the hospital she would not be taking up her post. It then wrongly insisted she should re-sit the whole of her final year, she added.
In the court papers, she said: 'The college disregarded my complaints and graduated all students complained about.
'All the alleged racists are now practising as doctors in the NHS. This can only ingrain the problem of institutional racism within the medical practice.
'At no point has the college accepted it was at fault for allowing an institutionally racist and hostile studying environment to exist.'
Miss Jibowu, of South Lambeth, South London, is demanding £300,000 for loss of earnings, aggravated damages and injury to health and feelings.
If she fails to qualify from the course, she is expected to sue again for the loss of her career.
The college, Dr Pinder and Dr Bowen all strongly deny her claims.
The case will be heard later this year.
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