Doctor faces ‘significant’ jail term for sex offences

A DOCTOR has been found guilty of committing ten sex offences against four female patients, including victims who complained of stomach pain, back pain and hay fever.

Jaswant Rathore was convicted at Wolverhampton Crown Court after a seven-week trial which heard he conducted unnecessary massage “treatment” to satisfy his sexual desires.

The 60-year-old GP, who was the primary care lead for the Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group, had denied touching eight women inappropriately on different occasions between late 2008 and the summer of 2015.

Judge Michael Challinor rejected a plea to continue Rathore’s bail overnight before sentencing on Thursday.

The judge told the doctor: “We know the nature of the sentence and don’t want there to be any difficulties.

“Following your conviction, you must expect a significant prison sentence.”

Jurors were told Rathore, who was acquitted of eight counts relating to four patients, stroked the side of the breasts of one victim. One of the patients Rathore was cleared of assaulting claimed he offered to put her prescription for eczema on her son’s prescription so she could get it free after he got the “wrong end of the stick”.

Rathore, of Ploughmans Walk in Wall Heath, Kingswinford, was convicted of eight charges of sexual assault and two counts of assault by penetration.

The Indian-born doctor qualified as a GP in 1985 after studying medicine at the University of Manchester. He also worked as a house officer in the spinal surgery section at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham in the 1980s.