‘Highly respected’ doctor GUILTY of sexually abusing female patients

A ‘highly respected’ senior doctor has been found GUILTY of sexually abusing two female patients.

Dr Wayne Sefton Davis, a GP in Salford, carried out the vile acts against the women during ‘invasive’ examinations on them during the 1990s and 2000s. Prosecutors stated there was no medical basis for his actions during the examinations.

Dr Davis, 67, denied all wrongdoing, but following two trials he was found guilty of indecent assault and assault by penetration. Reporting restrictions were imposed following the first trial, meaning it could not be reported that he had been found guilty of the offences.

Following the conclusion of a retrial, he was acquitted of another offence. At a sentencing hearing at Manchester Crown Court today (January 13) after an application to lift reporting restrictions by the Manchester Evening News, the case can now be fully reported.

Vanessa Thomson, prosecuting, said that the victims were from the Orthodox Jewish community and "were not brought up learning about sex and sexual behaviours at school as might be expected in secular society".

The women had limited knowledge and put their complete trust in a respected man they had been told 'knew best', which provided 'fertile ground' for Dr Davis to abuse each of them.

The first complainant said she went to see the doctor in the 2000s after complaining of pain in her genitals. She claimed the doctor made a 'highly inappropriate comment', before using his fingers to 'stretch' her vagina.

"She had no idea what was happening," Ms Thomson said. "In her words to the police, she thought it was bananas what he was doing."

She said that the doctor sexually assaulted her again by touching her genitals. "She said that she felt traumatised by the whole