Hospital assaults accused Dr Manav Arora 'groped two men'

Two men have told a court a doctor groped them while he carried out a medical examination in a hospital.

Dr Manav Arora, 37, from Birmingham, assaulted the men at a hospital on Teesside, Norwich Crown Court heard.

Appearing as witnesses, the two men told the court they were attacked at University Hospital of North Tees.

Dr Arora denies one count of sexual assault, relating to an inquiry prompted by claims at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in 2014.

The trial heard earlier from the Norfolk patient, who cannot be named for legal reasons, who said the doctor groped him and then performed oral sex while inserting a catheter, in September last year.

The attack is said to have taken place behind a curtain on a busy ward.

One witness from the hospital in Stockton-on-Tees said he was being examined by Dr Arora when he was touched in an inappropriate way.

"He started touching my gentleman's area," he said.

"I was in pain and trying to get him off me. I was wheelchair bound at the time."

A second man said the doctor pulled down his jeans to inspect his leg.

"I thought he was examining me but next thing he started sexually assaulting me," he said.

"I told him to get off."

Both men reported the incidents to the police but no action was taken, the court heard.

No dates of the incidents were given to the court.

Married father-of-one Dr Arora told police any contact with the penis was medically necessary to fit the catheter and denied sexually assaulting the man.

Jurors were told Dr Arora received a caution from West Midlands Police after being caught in a sex act with another man in a West Bromwich park.

This was the first time something like that had happened, "I put it down to curiosity", he said.

The trial continues.