GP Manish Shah, 50, of Romford, East London, who molested women at his surgery has been jailed for at least 15 years after carrying out 90 sex offences against 24 female former patients.
Shah even cited the cases of Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody to justify unnecessary examinations and exploited cancer fears to persuade patients aged between 15 and 39 to have unnecessary intimate examinations for his own sexual gratification.
At the Old Bailey last Thursday Judge Anne Molyneux QC branded Shah a 'master of deception' as she handed him three life sentences with a minimum 15-year term.
The court was told that between May 2009 and June 2013, he assaulted six patients of Mawney Medical Centre.
Shah denied wrongdoing, claiming he had been practising 'defensive medicine' but after a trial Shah was found guilty of 25 sexual offences against the six victims. He had already been convicted of similar offences relating to 18 other women, bringing the total number to 24.
Judge Molyneux QC said Shah had deployed a 'mixture of flattery and fear' and used celebrity cases to carry out the sex assaults.
Speaking in court, the woman who was 15 at the time, said she felt different about men and worried about being seen as a 'sex object'.
Shah is believed to have told young women they were 'pretty and beautiful' and remarked how one was 'tanned down there around the bikini line'.
Other patients told how he would rest an elbow on their knee and chat away as they lay naked from the waist down with their legs spread. The court has heard how Shah picked on patients' vulnerability, because of their age or family history of cancer.
Shah brought up the news story about Hollywood star Jolie having a preventative mastectomy as he asked a woman if she would like him to examine her breasts and also mentioned Goody to another woman, saying an examination was in her best interests, it was claimed.
According to reports jurors heard that Shah would not always wear gloves and left one patient entirely naked on an examination table.
Shah attempted to justify an examination in medical notes by suggesting it was 'requested', the court heard and disregarded NHS guidelines on giving healthy women aged under 25 smear tests and routine breast examinations on women under 50, which were said to cause more harm than good, jurors were told.
Shah, who lived in a £800,000 house in Romford, also breached guidelines on the use of chaperones during intimate examinations.
After the verdict Paul Goddard, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: 'Manish Shah was a trusted family doctor, but he took advantage of that trust to abuse his female patients and then falsified their medical notes to try to justify intimate medical examinations that should not have taken place. The Crown Prosecution Service wishes to commend those women, who by bravely giving evidence convinced the jury of Dr Shah's guilt.'
