A Birmingham hospital consultant has gone on trial accused of sexually assaulting a woman.
Vibhore Gupta, 53, has denied four charges of sexual assault and one other serious sexual charge.
Miranda Moore QC, prosecuting, told Birmingham Crown Court that Mr Gupta was a consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s A&E department.
She said three of the assaults took place in the defendant’s office while another occurred in the postgraduate centre of the hospital.
Miss Moore said on the first occasion Mr Gupta put his hand on her left breast and squeezed it over her clothing and then put it under her top.
Three days later he felt her breast again, said Miss Moore.
The third assault, she said, was in a consulting room at the postgraduate centre, which was elevated above the ground floor so people would not be able to look in.
Miss Moore said the defendant was arrested as he was about to go on holiday and that, when quizzed, said there had been no sexual contact between him and the alleged victim and her claims were “fantasy.”
(Trial continues)
