Manav Arora faces jail for groping a male patient at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

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Manav Arora attacked patient at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
Father-of-one performed sex act on male patient behind ward curtain
Denied sexual assault, but convicted after a four day trial before judge
Now can be revealed he was previously accused of three similar offences

Published: 08:56 EST, 24 September 2015 | Updated: 10:40 EST, 24 September 2015

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Manav Arora, 37, was facing jail after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a male patient at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. Pictured: Arora after the verdicts

A married agency doctor who groped and performed a sex act on a male patient behind a hospital curtain has been warned he faces jail.

Locum Manav Arora targeted his victim on a busy ward at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital while inserting a catheter.

The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said the doctor groped and then performed a sex act on him, as five other patients lay nearby.

It can now be revealed that the father-of-one has previously been accused of three similar offences.

The 37-year-old denied sexual assault at Norwich Crown but has been found guilty after a four day trial.

The incident happened behind a curtain at the teaching hospital in September last year.

Arora had only been working at the hospital for seven weeks after being supplied by the Government approved locum agency HCL Doctors.

He had managed to register with the agency after a General Medical Council suspension was lifted following an unproven allegation made against him in 2010.

A brief note of matter simply on his file read 'other information,' but the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital was not told about this.

During his trial Arora insisted any contact with the victim was medically necessary.

The jury of six men and six women returned its verdict after an hour and a half of deliberations.

Judge Guy Ayers adjourned sentencing to a later date, telling Arora: 'You have been convicted on the plainest possible evidence.

'The question for me is how long a custodial sentence will be.'

The court heard from two men who claim they were assaulted in the same way by Arora at the University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, four years earlier.

After the verdict the prosecutor Andrew Shaw said Arora had also been suspended in 2005 after a similar accusation was made at a hospital in Portsmouth.

Indian-born Arora also received a caution from West Midlands Police after being caught engaged in a sex act with another man in Sandwell Valley Park near West Bromwich less than two weeks after the incident in Norwich.

Speaking outside court, Detective Constable Graham Kett said it was possible Arora had assaulted other people who never reported their concerns.

He added: 'The victim went into hospital to get treatment and found himself getting sexually assaulted by this doctor. It was a terrible ordeal for him.

The father-of-one was found guilty after a four day trial. It can now be revealed that the father-of-one has previously been accused of three similar offences

Arora had insisted any contact with the victim at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital was medically necessary

'We go into hospital or to see GPs expecting they will make us better and we have to be able to trust them.

'I am pleased we have got justice for this man, the others before him and others still who we may not even know about.'

A spokesman for Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital said they terminated Arora's placement immediately after the allegation came to light and referred him to the General Medical Council.

'We are deeply shocked that a health professional could behave in this manner,' they said.

A spokesman for HCL, who supplied the medic, described the attack as 'deplorable' and said the agency had offered its support to the victim.

A spokesman for HCL said it was 'human error' that the hospital were not alerted to his previous suspension from the register.

'To reassure the public that this is an isolated incident, we have conducted additional exhaustive checks to ensure every member of our 5,000 strong health and social care workforce is fully compliant with safeguarding regulations and our very thorough compliance regulations.

'No additional concerns were identified as a result of this review.'