A married GP is accused of intimately massaging a male patient’s bottom and groin during an appointment for a bad back.
Farouk Patel, 35, allegedly asked the man to ‘relax and pull your top up’ as he lay on the examination couch.
The patient claims Patel then began to massage his buttocks and touch him intimately before fondling him and performing an act upon him.
The doctor denies any wrongdoing in his role as a practitioner at Belgrave Medical Centre in Leicester.
Farouk Patel, 35, allegedly asked the man to ‘relax and pull your top up’ as he lay on the examination couch
Patel has pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assaults and causing him to engage in sexual activity without consent in July 2016. He is currently on trial at Leicester Crown Court.
Adrian Langdale, prosecuting, claimed the doctor masqueraded as a happily married heterosexual family man during his police interview.
But scientific evidence of DNA from Patel and four unknown males, detected in the rooms of two surgeries where he worked, indicated ‘risky’ homosexual activity had taken place in the doctor’s consulting rooms, it was claimed.
The consultation with the alleged victim was scheduled for five minutes, but took 30 minutes, Mr Langdale told the court.
The patient immediately tried to complain, telling a receptionist he had ‘concerns’, said Mr Langdale. When told he could not speak to the practice manager at that time, he went to Mansfield House Police Station in the city centre.
Mr Langdale told the jury the patient went to the front counter and said: ‘How do I report I’ve been molested?’
Having described the allegation to an officer, he said: ‘I don’t believe this. What’s my wife going to say? This is going to cause me so many problems.’
In a police video played in court, the alleged victim said: ‘I’ve just gone to my doctor to get my back checked and this happened.’
He described being sexually abused and ‘feeling weird’.
He said: ‘This was a person I trusted. I started feeling uncomfortable, but then I was thinking, “He’s the man in charge, he’s the doctor, he knows what he’s doing”.’
‘All the time he was touching me I was uncomfortable, I was tense,’ the alleged victim added.
‘It was sexual.’
The man said: ‘He told me, “Just relax and pull your top up”
Gesturing pulling his T-shirt over his face, he said: ‘He covered my face like that but I could still feel him.
‘I just did what he told me – he went for that (intimate) area straight away.
‘I’m shocked about what’s happened.’
He said the ‘whole ordeal was, like, half an hour’.
During the recorded police statement the patient paused on occasions, holding his head in his hands.
The trial continues.
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