A 'highly respected' doctor has gone on trial accused of sexually abusing three of his patients. Dr Wayne Davis, a GP in Salford, faces allegations which are said to have occurred in the 1990s and 2000s.
The women claim they were sexually abused by the doctor while he carried out examinations on them. Prosecutors allege that there was no medical basis for his alleged actions during the examinations.
Dr Davis, 67, denies all wrongdoing. "The defence says that these three examinations, three of over thousands of examinations over years of practice, were carried out properly and legally and were not sexually motivated," his barrister Daniel Janner KC told jurors at Manchester Crown Court.
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Prosecutors said Dr Davis was a 'highly respected' doctor, and that the complainants had put their trust in him when they sought his help. Dr Davis was arrested in 2020 after allegations were made against him.
The first complainant, Woman A, 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 allegedly 'stretch' her vagina.
"She had no idea what was happening," prosecutor Vanessa Thomson said. "In her words to the police, she thought it was bananas what he was doing."
She alleged that the doctor sexually assaulted her again by touching her genitals. "She said that she felt traumatised by the whole experience," Ms Thomson said, adding that the complainant was 'haunted' by what she said happened to her.
Woman A reported her allegations to police in recent years. Jurors were told that a gynaecologist described the practice of 'stretching' as a 'bizarre concept with no grounding in gynaecological practice'.
The doctor is expected to say the practice is 'proper procedure' and his actions were not sexually motivated. After details of Dr Davis' arrest were published in the press, another woman came forward to claim she had been abused by him in the 1990s.
She said she went to the doctor after experiencing an issue with her genitals. Woman B said that the doctor inserted his finger into her vagina. She said she felt 'uncomfortable' but trusted the doctor.
The complainant said the examination had 'stayed with her all these years' and that it had left her feeling 'embarrassed and humiliated'. Prosecutors claim the alleged examination was carried out 'without any medical basis'.
Dr Davis is expected to say he has 'no specific recollection' of performing the examination but if he did carry it out, it would have been at the woman's request. A third woman, Woman C, claimed that Dr Davis encouraged her to find her 'G-spot' while carrying out an examination on her in the 2000s, after complaining of pain to her genitals.
She alleged that he directed her where to put her hand, and encouraged her to penetrate her vagina with her fingers. The woman felt 'uncomfortable' and 'wondered whether this activity was arousing him sexually', the court heard.
A gynaecologist who reviewed the woman's medical records said the doctor's notes were 'deficient in detail and non-specific'. He said there would be 'no justification for not documenting intimate examinations', the jury heard.
Ms Thomson said: "There would be no legitimate medical basis to invite a patient to do this, and encouraging a woman to pleasure herself in a doctors’ surgery could only be with a sexual motive in mind." The doctor is expected to say that what Woman C has alleged never happened.
Dr Davis, of Old Hall Road, Salford, denies two counts of assault by penetration, one count of indecent assault, one count of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.
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