You owe me...
What heart surgeon who ‘raped’ mother is claimed to have said over her sick child
A LEADING heart surgeon raped a woman in his office after telling her ‘you owe me’ for helping her sick child, a court heard yesterday.
She alleged that Mohamed Amrani, 53, was still in his operating theatre gown as he forced his tongue in her mouth and planted wet kisses on her neck and ears.
She told jurors that the consultant surgeon then stripped her naked and said, ‘I’m going to **** you,’ as he sexually assaulted her before she begged him, ‘please don’t do that’.
He then sat her down on the sofa in his office at Harefield Hospital in Hillingdon, West London, before forcing her to perform a sex act, the Old Bailey was told.
The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said that she was left feeling ‘very, very shaken’. She felt she could not report the incident because of Amrani’s position at Harefield, where his wife worked part-time.
She is one of four women he is accused of attacking during a campaign of ‘sexual bullying’ at the hospital over a 13-year period between 2001 and 2014.
Amrani was finally reported to police in 2015, by which time he had allegedly patted the bottom of a fifth victim at the private Cromwell Hospital in Kensington, West London, in June 2014.
Yesterday Amrani’s third alleged victim described him in court as ‘an absolutely brilliant surgeon’ who had helped when her child fell ill.
She told jurors: ‘He started saying, “You owe me for the help I gave you. Remember, you owe me”. He said it in a jovial, jolly way and I just never thought anything.’
The woman described how she was walking to Amrani’s office on September 4, 2013.
‘Then he said to me, “You owe me, you owe me, you owe me”, delivered in a very jovial way. I didn’t think anything of it,’ she explained.
She said she sat on a sofa in the surgeon’s office while he took a seat at his computer.
‘He came off the computer and came over to me while I was on the sofa. He leant over and started kissing me,’ the woman said.
Asked by prosecutor Peter Clement what was going through her mind, she replied: ‘Complete shock. Disbelief.’ Amrani then stood up and flicked the lock on the office door, the court heard. ‘ Then he came back over and started kissing me again.
‘ I didn’t move at all. I was completely still, completely frozen,’ the alleged victim continued.
‘He was trying to push his tongue inside my mouth. He then started kissing my neck and ears.
‘It was a horrible sensation. Then he pulled me up off the sofa so I was in a standing position I remember that he smelled of coffee.
‘Every time I go into a room that smells of coffee, it brings it all back.’
The woman said she did not fight Amrani off as he undressed her before sexually assaulting her.
She told jurors: ‘Whilst he was doing that he then said, “I’m going to **** you, I’m going to **** you”.
‘I said, “Please don’t do that, please don’t do that, I really don’t want you to do that”.’
Jurors were told how Amrani forced her to perform a sex act on him before his phone started ringing. He
‘He leant over and started kissing me’
answered ‘Hello’, tied up his operating theatre scrubs and left the room, the court heard.
The alleged victim added: ‘I just thought to myself at that time, “There’s no way I can report this”.’
Jurors heard her child had a hospital scan a month earlier and Amrani asked a colleague to look at it.
The surgeon performed the UK’s first double heart valve replacement using keyhole surgery in 2007 and has carried out many life-saving operations during his career.
He claims all five women made up the allegations.
Amrani, of Harrow, north-west London, denies one count of rape, one count of assault by penetration, six counts of indecent assault and three counts of sexual assault.
The trial continues.