"Doctor jailed for string of indecent assaults" 
    By Kate Watson-Smyth 

    21 December 2000

    A family doctor [Clifford Ayling] who was allowed to
    carry on working for two years between his arrest and 
    eventual trial was jailed for four years yesterday after
    he was convicted of indecently assaulting 10 female
    patients. 

    Ayling, who denied the charges, was arrested in
    November 1998 but was allowed to continue working
    at his practice in Cheriton, near Folkestone, Kent, for
    the next two years after he overturned a magistrates' bail
    condition preventing him from doing so. After appealing
    to the High Court he was allowed to continue on the
    condition he was chaperoned by a female nurse. 

    The jury deliberated for nearly five days before finding
    Ayling guilty on 13 counts of indecent assault between
    1991 and 1998. Not guilty verdicts were returned on
    five counts involving another three women. A further 11
    counts of indecent assault against eight victims were
    allowed to lie on the file. 

    The court was told that Ayling had been given a number
    of warnings before he was charged. He was arrested
    after one complaint in 1991, but the case against him
    was too weak to pursue. There were five more
    complaints before he was charged in 1998. 

    Ayling also posed as the disgraced consultant Rodney
    Ledward, who died last month and who was struck off
    [only] after maiming scores of women. He worked for
    Ledward as a clinical assistant between 1984 and 1994
    at the William Harvey Hospital at Ashford, Kent. 

    Extract from a news report in the "Independent"
    English broadsheet

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    "Perceptions note:

    The report failed to bring home the fact that the 
    medical establishment protected this pervert doctor
    for almost ten years after the first complaints of
    his criminal sexual assaults.

    He was allowed to carry on sexually assaulting
    helpless women patients despite 29 (twenty nine) 
    reports of assaults.

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