Consultant cleared of sex assault allegations

A BIRMINGHAM hospital consultant has been cleared of sexually assaulting a woman.

A jury at Birmingham Crown Court found Vibhore Gupta, 53, not guilty of four charges of sexual assault and one other serious sexual charge.

Mr Gupta, a father, of Widney Close, Harborne, was a consultant at the QE Hospital’s A&E.

A trial heard that 23-year-old woman had claimed three of the alleged assaults took place in his office, while another occurred in a postgraduate centre.

She claimed that the sexual assaults had consisted of Gupta putting his hand on her breast and forcibly kissing her. She also alleged that the serious sexual assault took place in his office when he had locked the door.

But Mr Gupta denied all the allegations and said there was no sexual contact between them. He said the woman’s claims were “fantasy”.

On University Hospitals Birmingham website, Mr Gupta was described as a consultant in emergency medicine.

His area of professional interest is military medicine. He is a highly respected member of the medical community and in 2013 added his weight to West Midlands Police’s “Knives End Lives” campaign, aimed at raising awareness of the perils of carrying a knife.