It was a phone in my pocket, claims ‘sex-pest’ doctor
A HOSPITAL doctor yesterday denied becoming sexually aroused as he hugged two nurses and insisted it was just a mobile phone in his pocket.
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Dr Mohammed Yasin, 30, denies sexual misconduct while working on a night shift at Wolverhampton’s New Cross Hospital in April last year.
A General Medical Council tribunal in Manchester heard he embraced and thrust himself against the two nurses.
But he insisted they may have mistaken his phone or car keys in his pocket for arousal.
One of his alleged victims told the hearing: “I know the difference.”
Miss B explained how she was helping an elderly patient to the toilet when Dr Yasin approached looking “stressed”.
He allegedly asked for a hug but without waiting for a reply squeezed her tightly.
Miss B said: “It’s not something that happens every time you go to work.
"I know the difference between a mobile phone and an erection. “
A doctor denies he became sexually aroused as he hugged two nurses during a night shift
"As we carried on hugging it started to grow.
"It felt horrible.” The hearing was told Dr Yasin later attended a different unit where the second nurse, Miss A, was working.
Miss A said: “He came behind me and started to rub my shoulders.
"Dr Yasin asked for a hug before hugging me and moved his hands down to my waist and back.
A tribunal in Manchester is hearing Dr Yasin and the nurses' versions of the story
"I hadn’t been hugged by a male doctor before.
"I do remember he had an erection.
"It was visible.
"I just noticed it.
"I don’t think it was a phone or a key fob.”
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Yasin, of Birmingham, told the hearing: “I was not aroused.
"I can only imagine I had something in my pocket.
“I would have carried my Nokia phone, key fob and tissues.
"They were mistaken.
"I don’t even find these girls attractive.”
Dr Yasin insisted the nurses may have mistaken his phone or car keys in his pocket for arousal
Defending his repeated hugging of nurses, unmarried Yasin added: “I felt hugging was part of the culture at work.
"Within my culture, for males and females to touch each other if they are not married is considered inappropriate and wrong.
"One of the things I was concerned about was with the concept of fitting in.
“I’ve never hugged anyone from behind because I know it’s not appropriate.”
Yasin denies the allegations.
The hearing continues.