West Midlands doctor found guilty of sexual assault
A doctor has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a male patient on a busy hospital ward.
Manav Arora, 37, from Birmingham, denied the sexual assault at Norwich Crown Court but was found guilty after a four-day trial.
The locum doctor was working at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital when the incident happened in September last year.
The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said the doctor groped and then performed a sex act on him while inserting a catheter.
The attack is said to have taken place behind a curtain while five other patients lay nearby.
Married father-of-one Arora had insisted any contact with the victim was medically necessary.
The jury of six men and six women returned its verdict after an hour and a half of deliberations.
Judge Guy Ayers adjourned sentencing to a later date, telling Arora: "You have been convicted on the plainest possible evidence.
"The question for me is how long a custodial sentence will be."
Jurors were told Arora received a caution from West Midlands Police in the same month after being caught engaged in a sex act with another man in Sandwell Valley Park near West Bromwich.
