Manish Shah: GP jailed for 90 sex offences against female patients

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Manish Shah, 50, was branded a “master of deception” as he was handed three life sentences at the Old Bailey. “Your behaviour was not only sexual but was driven by your desire to control and on occasions humiliate women.” Manish Shah was handed three life sentences at the Old Bailey Fifteen of Shah’s victims sat in court on Friday as his barrister Zoe Johnson QC said the GP “deeply regrets hurting them and cannot say sorry enough”. Summarising other victim impact statements, prosecutor Rosina Cottage QC said the “lack of trust” created by Shah meant many of the women refused to see male doctors and that it had affected their relationships. 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.