10 August,2011 02:08 PM IST | | ANI
A Pakistan-origin doctor has been jailed in the UK for seven years for sexually assaulting five women patients under the guise of medically examining them
Dr Haleem Bhatti targeted his victims when they consulted him for rashes, chest pain and weight gain, taking the opportunity to violate their most private areas.
The 48-year-old groped his victims' breasts and even put his hand between their thighs, while asking needless and inappropriate questions about their sex lives.
Bhatti was found guilty of molesting the women while he worked as a family doctor at the Greengate Medical Centre in Plaistow, east London, between September 2006 and July 2009.
Judge Simon Davis said the shamed medic - who qualified in Pakistan - had "deliberately fabricated" his patients' medical notes to disguise his "dreadful" illegal behaviour.
As he sentenced Bhatti to seven years in jail, Judge Davis told Bhatti: "You are a man who should have known better.
"There was no need for you to conduct the examination to the extent that you did for the reasons that you did and I find your motive was sexual gratification," the Daily Mail quoted Judge Davis as saying.
"You have not come to terms with that in the pre-sentence report.
"It is quite clear that you still profess your innocence.
"You will have to take time to consider whether that's a sensible approach into the future," Judge Davis added.
The GP will have to sign indefinitely as a sex offender.
