A DOCTOR confessed today to treating women after he was convicted of sexually molesting two patients.
Dr Kishore Kumar Sharma carried on for a month until he returned to court to be jailed for six months. But patients he saw after he pleaded guilty to sexual assault were unaware the GP was a molester because they were with another practice which employed him as a locum.
Dr Sharma's admission to the Manchester Evening News has raised an apparent loophole in disciplinary procedures of the General Medical Council.
The GMC did not suspend him until after he had been jailed at Manchester Crown Court.
Dr Sharma's appeal to the GMC to be put back on the medical register, allowing him to practise again, has been provisionally granted - to the dismay of police who maintain he is a threat to women,
Cheshire Police are set to make legal history by asking a court to issue an order preventing Dr Sharma from treating women.
Today the disgraced doctor, who molested two women in his surgery at Stretford, admitted he betrayed ''my patients who loved me.''
He also revealed at his home in Handforth, Wilmslow, that he had received psychiatric treatment to stop him offending again. He added: ''I want my job back because I can be trusted now.''
The GP admitted that during the month before he was sentenced, patients and some colleagues did not know of his conviction.
He said: "I proved then I could be trusted because they all spoke highly of me. I believe I deserve a chance because I have paid my debt to society and acknowledged I had problems at the time I did this.''
The married father of two pleaded guilty to assaulting the two women, aged 17 and 22, at his Gorse Hill surgery in Stretford in 1997. He served half his six-month sentence.
The order being sought by police, if granted, would last five years and prevent Sharma from examining women anywhere in England or Wales.
But Dr Sharma said: "I am shocked and disappointed at the attitude of the police because all the experts I have dealt with say I am a low risk - it is very confusing.''
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