A Birmingham neurosurgeon has been jailed for 16 years after he was convicted of nine serious sexual offences against six female patients while pretending to examine them.
Nafees Hamid, 51, was cleared of six other counts of sexual assault relating to four other women.
Hamid - who worked at Queen Elizabeth and Priory hospitals in the city - was convicted of offences committed in 2012 and 2013.
Upon his initial arrest, surgeon Nafees Hamid claimed there was a medical justification for the intimate examinations he conducted on his female victims.
Only after independent medical opinion was sought on his practices was the Birmingham neurosurgeon charged with sexual assault, police said.
Hamid called upon his comprehensive knowledge of medical research as part of his consistent denial of any offence.
"He has said that what he did was medically justified or that, on occasions, the victims were incorrect," West Midlands Police Detective Inspector Ian Ingram said following Hamid's conviction today.
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