GP filmed abuse on his wristwatch

Dr Davinder Jeet Bains, 46, used his position as a GP at a medical practice in Royal Wootton Bassett, near Swindon, Wiltshire, to assault more than two dozen women.

Swindon Crown Court heard Bains filmed the attacks on his Tieex 4GB Waterproof HD Spy Watch DVR, which has a built-in camera on the face and can be bought on the internet for less than £60.

Detectives branded Bains a “sexual predator” and said he had covertly filmed more than 100 women.

Bains admitted a total of 39 charges, including 13 of assault by penetration, 13 of voyeurism, 11 of sexual assault and two of sexual activity with a child.

He also asked for a further 65 offences, 10 of sexual assault by penetration, eight of sexual assault and 47 of voyeurism, to be taken into account when Judge Douglas Field passed sentence.

His not guilty pleas to three charges of sexual assault and a single count of administering a noxious drug with intent to commit a sexual offence were accepted by the Crown and will lie on file.

Bains, from Swindon, committed offences against 27 women aged from 14 to 51 between July 2010 and May 2012.

The police investigation began in June last year when a 19-year-old woman told officers she thought Bains filmed her as she showered and said she had been sexually assaulted by him in Swindon.

When detectives arrested Bains at the Tinkers Lane Surgery in Royal Wootton Bassett, they discovered his hi-tech wristwatch with spy camera.

They later recovered 361 high-quality video clips from Bains’s watch and home computer.

Passing sentence, Judge Field told Bains he had breached the trust patients put in their doctor.

“When you committed these offences you breached this duty of trust in the most grievous way. You are a disgrace to the medical profession.”

Judge Field told Bains that regarding one of the victims in particular, a teenage girl, he was in a “high position of trust” when he covertly filmed her.

“In serious breach of that trust you engaged in entirely inappropriate sexualised behaviour with her, including plying her with alcohol and showing her a sexually explicit film,” the judge said.

“You then sexually abused her. Fortunately she reported her concerns to a friend and thus supported, she reported matters to the police.”

The judge placed Bains on the Sex Offenders’ Register indefinitely and passed a Sexual Offences Prevention Order banning him from possessing any device that can store or record videos, having contact with girls under 16 or entering Royal Wootton Bassett.

The court heard some of the victims felt something was wrong with Bains’s examination of them and had told friends and family about the “pervy doctor” and of being groped by him.

Another said: “I felt like he had touched me up.” One patient, a teenage girl, had been asked by Bains whether her boyfriend was well-endowed.

Prosecutor Kerry Maylin explained that in one case a woman had gone to see Bains with a medical complaint and he examined her internally and then told her following his examination that she did not have cancer.

Another victim reassured herself that Bains “was a doctor and must know what he was doing”, Miss Maylin said.

Rex Tedd QC, defending, said Bains had committed the offences after his marriage ended. “These offences were confined to a period of life when his marriage had collapsed, caused in the main by his sexual inadequacy when he was self-medicating inappropriately. This man, medically qualified and previously reputable, has engaged in a catalogue of serious sexual offences.”