Daily Mail
December 18, 2014
An anaesthetist who was branded ‘the octopus’ for his wandering hands and lewd comments could be jailed for groping nurses at the hospital where he worked.
Dr Niaz Ahmed passed off his behaviour as innocent banter and was referred to as a ‘sex pest’ by prosecutors at Newcastle Crown Court.
The skilled doctor, who had received numerous warnings from hospital bosses to tone down his behaviour, was convicted of sexually assaulting two of his colleagues more than a decade ago and must now sign the sex offenders register.
Ahmed, who was suspended from medical practice at a tribunal earlier this year for groping a nurse who was treating him after an accident in 2010, was cleared of three similar charges.
Michael Hodson, prosecuting, said: ‘Imagine what it was like going to work with a sex pest, always the octopus, hands all over the place, underlined by innuendo.’
Mr Hodson said one nurse victim was targeted in the scrub room at the hospital, where Ahmed squeezed her bottom and asked her ‘do you fancy it’.
Another had her breasts prodded by the medic while she was at work and said he had told her ‘put them away’.