Pervert doctor who used spy watch to film himself abusing patients has jail sentence cut

Dr Davinder bains [Photo:Swindona]

A family GP who filmed himself sexually abusing female patients using a James Bond-style watch has had his sentence reduced by two years on appeal.

Dr Davinder Jeet Bains's original 12-year sentence was quashed by three judges at Canterbury Crown Court yesterday.

They told the pervert doctor he must instead serve 10 years behind bars.

Bains used a secret camera hidden inside his watch to assault more than two dozen women at his Wiltshire medical practice.

At his appeal hearing, Lord Thomas told the court that although Bains's behaviour had been a "gross breach of trust" the original sentence imposed by Judge Douglas Field for 13 offences of assault by penetration would be reduced to eight years after taking into account that the "penetration had been minimal and brief" and that there had been "no violence".

He also resentenced Bains, 47, for 11 sexual assaults and 13 counts of voyeurism, to run concurrently to the eight-year sentence, and added a further two years of imprisonment for two counts of sexual activity with a child, bringing the total sentence to a decade.

Bains, of Nyland Road, Swindon, committed offences against 27 victims - aged from 14 to 51 - between July 2009 and June 2012.

Police described him as a "sexual predator" and said he had filmed up to 300 women while Judge Field branded him a "disgrace to the medical profession" at his sentencing hearing in May last year.

Some of his victims at the Tinkers Lane Surgery in Royal Wootton Bassett, near Swindon, spoke of their shock at discovering what the "pervy doctor" had done to them.

One woman, in her 30s, said she felt "violated and humiliated" at seeing the footage and said she had "lost faith in the NHS".

Malaysian-born Bains filmed the attacks on his Tieex 4GB Waterproof HD Spy Watch DVR, which has been likened to something out of a 007 film.

It had a built-in camera on the face - with simple on and off buttons to record - and can be bought on the internet for less than £60.

Bains admitted a total of 39 charges at Swindon Crown Court: 13 of assault by penetration, 13 of voyeurism, 11 of sexual assault and two of sexual activity with a child.

He also asked for a further 65 offences to be taken into account and his not guilty pleas to four other charges will lie on file.