Six years for rapist doctor

A DOCTOR is behind bars after he raped a teenager and sexually assaulted another woman.

The 45-year-old, who said he was lonely, was jailed for six years after the attacks on his victims, whom he met on an online dating site.

A DOCTOR who raped a teenager and sexually assaulted another woman has been jailed for six years.

Khalid Jamal, 45, met his victims on a dating web site.

Jamal wept in the dock at High Court in Glasgow as Judge Johanna Johnston told him: “You subjected both of your victims to sexual assaults and raped one of them.

“You met them through the internet and told them you were in your twenties. Each young woman has been profoundly affected by your behaviour.”

The court heard Jamal continues to protest his innocence and claims his two victims had fabricated their evidence.

Placing Jamal, a first offender, on the sex offenders’ register, Judge Johnston told him: “As a doctor for many years you served the community and you were involved in charity work, but given the nature of these offences only a significant custodial sentence is appropriate.”

His first victim, now 27, had been out with Jamal on a number of occasions.

On Christmas Eve 2013 he attacked her in his flat in Great Western Road after she refused to have sex.

Jamal raped his second victim, then 19, at his “cabin” in Balloch, Dunbartonshire, in 2016.

The court had previously heard that on their first date the doctor, who told the teenager he was 24, had picked her up in Glasgow city centre He suggested to go to his house and drove them to Balloch, where he raped her.

The woman, 19, saw Jamal again in September that year and he promised to drive her home from a night out. Instead, he took her to his flat in Parkhead, Glasgow, and sexually assaulted her.

Jamal claimed he had consensual sexual contact with both victims.

A jury convicted him of

Each young woman has been profoundly affected by your behaviour

raping and sexually abusing the teenager and sexually abusing the other woman and he returned to the court yesterday to be sentenced.

Defence counsel Sarah Livingstone said: “Mr Jamal recognises offences like these are abhorrent, but insists he had been wrongly convicted.

“He was a law-abiding citizen and as a doctor was involved in helping people and was also involved in charity work.”

Mr Livingstone said Jamal, from India, had been lonely since coming to Scotland and had used the internet to meet people, not to target young women.