Former doctor jailed for 18 years for abusing girls

A former children's doctor has been jailed for 18 years for indecently assaulting girls at the same hospital where Jimmy Savile abused patients.

79-year-old Michael Salmon was convicted of nine indecent assaults and two rapes carried out against six girls at Stoke Mandeville Hospital between 1973 and 1988.

Salmon was sentenced to 18 years behind bars for raping a 16-year-old in his bedroom after claiming to carry out an abortion on her.

The judge at Reading Crown Court sentenced him to 14 years for the second rape charge, to run concurrently, and two years behind bars for each of the nine counts of indecent assault.