Indian-Origin Doctor Gets 8-Year Jail For Sexually Assaulting Patients In UK
LONDON: An Indian-origin gynaecologist was sentenced to eight years in prison in the UK for sexual assault against his female patients.
Dr Mahesh Patwardhan was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court for four counts of sexual assault between July 31, 2008 and September 24, 2012.Judge Alice Robinson told the court in south London that the impact statement from one of his victims was "one of the most harrowing I've ever read".
"You knew about the serious sexual abuse she suffered as a child," she told the 53-year-old medic, who was in court with his anaesthetist wife, son and daughter.
Dr Patwardhan was also convicted of two counts of fraud relating to falsely billing private medical insurers for work he did not perform.
The doctor had already been struck off by the UK's General Medical Council (GMC) in October 2014 and publicity from that case prompted more victims to come forward, local newspaper 'News Shopper' reports.
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