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GP is jailed for 12 years for sexually abusing 47 female patients

BMJ 2022; 377 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o1328 (Published 26 May 2022) Cite this as: BMJ 2022;377:o1328
  1. Clare Dyer
  1. The BMJ

A GP who was found guilty of 54 sex offences against female patients over three and a half decades has been jailed for 12 years.

At the High Court in Glasgow Krishna Singh, 72, was convicted last month of offences against 47 women and girls, including a victim of rape, teenagers, and pregnant women.

His trial heard that he was a sexual predator “hiding in plain sight.” After qualifying in India, he became a GP in Scotland in the early 1980s but was …

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