GP used fake Tinder profile and raped nurse
A married GP raped a student nurse moments after her drink was spiked with a substance which caused her to drift in and out of consciousness.
Doctor Manesh Gill, 39, carried out the attack after luring the victim to a hotel in Stirling on December 8 2018.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Gill went onto Tinder and called himself “Mike” before he “superliked” his victim’s profile on the dating app.
The woman now 23, said Gill lied that the hotel toilets were closed to con her into entering his hotel room where he gave her a “really strong” pink gin and lemonade.
She told prosecutor Stephanie Ross: “He was on top of me. I was trying to push him off. I couldn’t. I just felt like my whole body was stuck to the bed. He was having sex with me. I wanted to go home. I felt as if I couldn’t move. I couldn’t do anything. My body shut down.”
Gill, a GP in an Edinburgh practice, admitted bringing a condom, Viagra and a bottle of pink gin - the woman’s favourite drink to the hotel. But he denied that this was evidence he was planning to have sex with the woman.
After his arrest, Gill asked a colleague: “What if they find morphine in her system? It will be her word against mine.”
Details of the woman’s ordeal emerged during a four day trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Trial judge Lord Tyre warned Gill that he is facing a term in prison and advised him to put his “affairs in order”. He added: “By the verdict of the jury you have been found guilty of the crime of rape.”
Gill will be sentenced on June 15.