GP, 53, 'carried out a dozen unnecessary intimate examinations on 16-year-old ... trends now
A GP carried out a dozen intimate vaginal and breast exams on a teenager during an 18-month period for 'his own sexual gratification', a court heard.
Manish Shah, 53, was accused of talking ‘absolute nonsense’ at the Old Bailey as he tried to justify the visits of eight women to his medical centre in Romford, Essex, between October 2009 and July 2013.
He is said to have persuaded women to have invasive vaginal examinations and breast examinations when there was no medical need and to have breached the guidelines on use of chaperones.
He denies six counts of assault by vaginal penetration with a finger and four counts of sexual assault by touching against the woman.
Manish Shah, 53, denies 41 sexual offences against eight victims over a four-year period between 2009 and July 2013
Prosecutors at the Old Bailey in London, pictured, said Shah made a patient scared that she was likely to develop breast cancer 'reliant on him' in order to perform more unnecessary procedures
Prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones asked Shah why he kept asking a 16-year-old girl to come back for vaginal and breast examinations.
The teenager was given eight vaginal examinations and four breast examinations which the prosecution claim were simply for Shah’s sexual gratification.
The doctor said he had asked her to come for vaginal examinations because she had previously had an infection.
Ms Karmy-Jones asked the doctor if his approach was appropriate given that the teenager had suffered only one previous infection.
‘How long is it going to go on, she’s had some infection at some stage of her past, how long does this continue?’
Shah replied: ‘This is in context, because of cysts she’s had, she’s said the cyst is better but it’s not resolved, it’s still there. I’ve asked her if she’d like me to check.
Ms Karmy-Jones said: ‘What are you suggesting by that, that she has said: “Yes please, please let me take my clothes off and spread my legs so you can stick your fingers up my vagina,” is that what she said?’
‘No. I think you underestimate the level of concern some of these patients had,’ Shah replied.
Ms Karmy-Jones suggested the small cyst did not need monitoring, but Shah insisted it did.
Ms Karmy-Jones said: ‘It’s another example of you creating the opportunity for yet another intimate examination. If there were any issue you’d have got it over with and done it then and there.
Shah said the patient had not wanted swabs to be performed on the same day as the intimate examination.
‘Absolute nonsense Mr Shah, it’s another occasion that she was going to come in and you would have the opportunity to put your fingers inside her, wasn’t it?’ Ms Karmy-Jones replied.
