I'm not sure about this, like you say newspapers rarely let a complete disclosure of the facts get in the way of a good story. I note, looking at the timeline, that this is applying from a gap year with a full set of results and work experience etc. He has made two appeals, one against Manchester (They say his work experience wasn't relevant to the application) and one against Imperial for the criminal records thing. I also notice that he didn't make full disclosure as part of his initial UCAS application (He says due to bad advice, which is really very believable given as his school haven't sent people to medical school before) and that he sent the letter when he learnt about full disclosure as part of the CRB investigation and thought to pre-empt it (Which again is a perfectly fair move and exactly what he should have done).
But from there, Imperial brought him before Fitness to Practice, where he was given a hearing and then rejected (Which is the bit the papers haven't been mentioning much). Imperial can't release information about this obviously (Because its a confidential hearing) and the student himself hasn't mentioned it. The only thing Imperial did say is that they have to run to GMC standards because, in his final year, he would have to go through exactly the same process again anyway in order to acquire his provisional registration.
Which is a long winded way of saying there's not much to say on the subject, really. I wouldn't mind putting a few pennies on the fact that he's reading this thread at the moment because he seems like a pretty clued up kinda guy. He's probably a perfectly decent chap who cocked up, which happens. But from Imperial's point of view, why would they take on a potential liability when they have two thousand other kids from which to choose a safe pair of hands? The one thing that did annoy me was his MP rattling on about "Public bodies being public accountable" and all that jazz, which is, quite frankly, *******s. Imperial have a perfectly good code of admissions which is clear to anyone who applies and he's been rejected within the terms of that code, whether anyone likes it or not. What he means by "Accountability" is "Responsibility to listen and take heed of every noisy **** who decides medical school admissions are their business after ten minutes of broad education on the subject".