Family GP used 'James Bond-style' tiny watch camera to film women during intimate exams

A family GP who secretly filmed intimate examinations of women with a tiny camera hidden in his watch has been jailed for 12 years.

Davinder Jeet Bains, 46, took hundreds of hours of high-quality recordings on the device capturing his abuse over a three year period.

He performed unnecessary intimate examinations on more than 200 female patients aged between 14 and 51, fondling their breasts and groin areas.

He had peephole cameras hidden in the circular part of the number 6 on two wrist watches he wore at Tinkers Lane Surgery in Royal Wootton Bassett, Wilts.

Bains was caught after his 17-year-old student lodger told police he had drugged and sexually assaulted her at home.

Officers raided his clinic and found 361 video clips between 10 and 45 minutes long showing the intimate examinations he had secretly recorded.

Police scoured the medical records of women registered at the family practice and contacted 3,000 potential victims.

Stills of video footage were then painstakingly matched with women treated at the surgery who had no idea they had been filmed.

Bains admitted 39 charges of sexual assault and voyeurism and asked for a further 65 to be taken into consideration.

Sentencing him at Swindon Crown Court, Judge Douglas Field branded Bains a 'disgrace to the medical profession'.

He told him: 'A doctor is in a very high position of trust and you breached your duty of trust on the most grievous way.

'The videos were taken by you using a specially-constructed watch to record intimate examinations, no doubt for your own sexual gratification.'

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The court heard that Bains was caught after his young lodger alleged he had given her two pills for 'acne', plied her with alcohol and then sexually assaulted her.

She told police she believed he had also been filming her as she showered in his home with a secret camera hidden in a watch left on a certain shelf in the bathroom.

She added that she had also seen pictures on his computer she believed 'looked like they had been filmed in secret'.

Police raided Bains's home in Swindon and the surgery where he had worked for four years in June last year.

He was arrested wearing one of his specially-made spy watches.

Officers found a second watch at his home and seized a laptop containing over 300 films downloaded from the watch over a three year period.

Kerry Maylin, prosecuting, said: 'He covertly recorded patients showing on occasions intimate examinations, including those under 16 and adults.

'One patient had concerns about the way the Dr Baines used a watch, he was fiddling with the watch on his left arm, hanging low by his side.

'She called it a 'very James Bond type of equipment'.

'Another victim, a 15-year-old, described how she heard a 'click sound' as he bent over her.

'Another said she had been concerned about a watch she had noticed Dr Bains fiddling with at the sink.

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'One woman said she noticed Dr Bains 'walk across the room and fiddle unusually with his watch. Holding his left arm with the watch strangely horizontal across him'.

'There was a gross abuse of a position of trust in all of these matters.'

Ms Maylin added that victims were often reduced to tears after appointments and described Bains as 'intimidating and wrong', 'mega uncomfortable' and 'pervy.'

Married Bains, who was separated from his wife but had a girlfriend at the time of his crimes, was suspended by the General Medical Council after his arrest.

Defending, Rex Tedd, QC, said: 'This man, medically qualified and previously reputable, has engaged in a category of serious criminal offences which upon their discovery must have caused great anger, distress, concern and grave upset to those who were the victims.

'The personal mitigation is limited when seen in the context of these offences.

'There is no background evidence of intimidation or no attempt to progress matters to full sexual intercourse.'

Detective Inspector Mark Garrett said: 'Our challenge was to identify who these patients were, to locate them and disclose that their medical examination had been recorded by their family doctor for his own gratification.

'There were a number who simply couldn't believe it. They couldn't believe that their GP had betrayed their trust in such a way.

'Others were outraged and concerned that the footage could have been shared but I can categorically say we found no evidence to show that it had been.

'He is a sexual predator who abused the trust of his patients and his position of authority.'

Bains, who has no children, qualified from Mangolore University in 1993.

He was also ordered to sign Sexual Offenders Register indefinitely prohibited from owning any device capable of recording film or taking pictures, prohibited from having unsupervised contact with children and was banned from entering Royal Wootton Basset.