Sex assault doctor jailed for two years

Manav Arora, aged 37, from Birmingham, denied the sexual assault 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 sexual act on him while inserting a catheter. The attack is said to have taken place behind a curtain while five other patients were lying nearby.

Arora was sentenced at King's Lynn Crown Court yesterday where Judge Guy Ayers jailed him for two years. Arora, a married father-of-three, was also given a sexual harm prevention order, which prohibits him from working in any medical capacity with access to patients for 10 years.

Mr Ayers said: "The victim was incapable of much physical movement, as he was in great pain and was in no position to prevent what was happening. It is clear from the pre-sentence report that you continue to deny doing anything wrong and claim what you did was the perfectly proper procedure for fitting a catheter."

The trial also heard from two men who claim they were assaulted in the same way by Arora at the University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, four years earlier.

After the verdict, prosecutor Andrew Shaw said Arora had been suspended in 2005 after a similar accusation was made at a hospital in Portsmouth.

Indian-born Arora also received a caution from West Midlands Police after being caught engaging in a sex act with another man in Sandwell Valley Park near West Bromwich less than two weeks after the incident in Norwich.

Alan Jenkins, for Arora, said he would be struck off by the General Medical Council, adding it was unlikely he would ever work in the medical profession in the UK again.