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.
A Birmingham neurosurgeon jailed for sexually abusing patients encouraged women to remove their clothes and on some occasions removed them himself with no chaperone present, his trial heard.
The jury was told that Nafees Hamid would then perform intimate examinations without wearing gloves and made inappropriate sexual remarks.
An expert witness told his trial that the practices Hamid used were "inappropriate and medically unjustifiable" despite the surgeon's claims to the contrary.
Crown Advocate Aliya Rashid, who acted as a junior counsel, said: "Nafees Hamid, whilst in a position of high trust, carried out intrusive and inappropriate examinations on vulnerable women while masking his true purpose, which was personal sexual gratification.
"These examinations left women shocked, confused, embarrassed and deeply upset."
The Democratic presidential candidate may also have shown his cards on his choice of running mate.
The US president also shared a post on Twitter accusing Dr Anthony Fauci of misleading the public over hydroxychloroquine.
Fears over an impending second wave of coronavirus dominates Wednesday’s front pages.