GP found guilty of indecently assaulting women he was treating

A GP has been found guilty at a retrial of indecently assaulting women as he carried out routine examinations.

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Stephen Cox, 64, denied 16 counts of indecent assault against seven different women while working in Bracknell in Berkshire, between 1988 and 1997.

Cox, who denied the charges against him, was found guilty of 12 counts, and not guilty on four. He is due to be sentenced on Monday.

Six of the verdicts were unanimous and a further six by a majority verdict.

Cox used the cover of carrying out "routine medical examinations", in assaulting the women, Chris Hewertson, prosecuting, said previously.

But he was in fact "motivated by sexual pleasure by the deliberate touching of certain areas of the body" and took "sexual gratification" from the encounters.

His actions were not medically justified, Mr Hewertson said, calling his conduct "inappropriate, wrong, criminal."

Dr Cox said the women were mistaken in their allegations and that the examinations would have been medically justified.

Nine of the allegations made against Dr Cox, now of Marton, Shropshire, were made by one former patient.

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