An emergency division physician has denied sexually assaulting two male sufferers on a unique ward, claiming he was finishing up reliable examinations to construct up factors for an appraisal.
Prosecutors allege Tayabb Shah “strayed” into an acute ward to commit 5 sexual assaults on two susceptible victims over a two-week interval within the autumn of 2020.
The married father-of-two, of no mounted tackle however previously of Sherwood, Nottingham denies committing the offences whereas working as a junior locum physician and on a break on the metropolis’s Queen’s Medical Centre.
Giving proof to jurors on Thursday, Shah stated he was of Pakistani nationality and had studied for his medical diploma in China earlier than initially working in the USA.
He additionally informed Nottingham Crown Courtroom that after being employed at a hospital in Galway Eire he started work in Nottingham in January 2020.
Answering questions from defence lawyer Marie Spenwyn, the 39-year-old stated he had not touched both affected person’s personal components and had not added to their medical data as a result of he “thought it will be no large deal”.
Explaining a part of his reasoning for treating sufferers away from his personal ward, Shah informed the courtroom: “This was my first yr within the UK.
“My appraisal was approaching within the second week of December.
“I mentioned it with a advisor within the ED – they did inform me that you simply wanted to have a certain quantity of factors.”
Underneath cross-examination from prosecutor Ian West, Shah rejected the assertion that he was a “sexual predator” who had intentionally focused two susceptible folks in assaults that “had nothing to do with persevering with training”.
After conceding he had not entered any particulars into the 2 sufferers’ notes, Shah claimed he had stored his personal file of the assessments in a pocket book.
Requested by Mr West the place the pocket book, if it existed, was, Shah responded: “I don’t have it proper now with me.
“I used to be shifting and I simply can’t discover it. I misplaced it someplace.”
After being invited to additional clarify his failure so as to add to the sufferers’ medical data, Shah added: “My thoughts was fascinated about the assessments that I used to be doing. It by no means got here throughout my thoughts.”
Mr West went on to ask Shah if he might counsel a cause why a affected person would inform a “career-destroying” lie about him.
Shah informed the jury: “I don’t know. I want I knew the explanation.”
The medic then urged that one of many complaints might be linked to a comment made to him about “international medical doctors”.
Mr West requested him: “Is there nothing you gained’t say or allege to attempt to get away with this?”
Shah replied: “I’m not that sort of individual.”
The trial continues.
Kaynak: briturkish.com