North Lanarkshire doctor Krishna Singh, 72, targeted patients, including a rape victim, teenage children and pregnant women. The Glasgow Supreme Court was told that “sexual harassment was part of his professional life”. The victims were subjected to kisses, palpitations, inappropriate examinations and sly comments by Singh, which prosecutors described as “hiding in public”. Image: Singh convicted in Glasgow Supreme Court GP, from Airdrie, worked for four decades and was awarded an MBE for medical services. In addition to his work as a general practitioner, he worked as a police wound surgeon, which dealt with the examination of victims of sexual violence. His offenses were committed between 1983 and 2018, when he was initially reported by a woman, resulting in an investigation. He was convicted of 54 counts, found not guilty in nine more and acquitted in two others. The doctor committed his crimes mainly in clinics in North Lanarkshire, but also in a hospital for accidents and emergencies, in a police station and during visits to patients’ homes. Among the victims who testified in court was a 50-year-old hospital worker, who was examined by Singh at the Motherwell Police Department in March 2008 after she reported rape. She was shocked when the general practitioner asked her if the sex was consensual and told the jurors: “She asked me if I was wearing a skirt and I said I was wearing jeans and a T-shirt. “He asked me how low my top was and if it looked like my cleavage. He asked me if I was provocative; he said, “You’re not a good girl.” The woman’s ordeal worsened when she was abused by the GP. Image: Singh was in an “insulting routine” against women, jurors heard Another ex-patient said Singh was “pushing and pushing” around the line of her pants even if it was a sore throat check-up. She was originally a teenager when she went to see the general practitioner and said it was a “crazy joke” among friends how Singh was. But when asked now what she thought, the 39-year-old mother said: “If this was my daughter, I would sit in the chair accused of murder. No professional should behave like that.” A man admitted to jurors that he threatened to attack Singh after he caught him touching his then pregnant wife on a date in the mid-1990s. The witness recalled: “Dr. Singh came up to us and put his hands – palms up – and then squeezed her chest two or three times. “Then he said, ‘Your breasts are growing.’ “I said, ‘Get your hands off her … otherwise I’ll knock you out the window.’ In her address to the jury, prosecutor Angela Gray said: “The Crown’s case is that Dr. Singh was on a routine of insulting women. “Other times thin or camouflaged, other times obvious and glaring. “Sexual harassment was part of his professional life. Access to women as when the situation arose and taking advantage of opportunities whenever possible. “A quick feeling, a look at a familiar area, an indecent comment. “That was the way he worked, hiding in public view.” Judge Lord Armstrong adjourned the sentence until next month.
