A WOMAN who claims she was sexually assaulted by her doctor was left feeling “horrible” after an internal examination, jurors heard.
The patient, who cannot be named, is one of eight women who say Oxford locum Yenugula Srinivas abused them.
The 41-year-old, of Church Road, Sandford-on-Thames, denies seven serious sexual assaults and four counts of sexual assault.
At Oxford Crown Court yesterday jurors watched a video interview of a woman in her 30s who saw Srinivas at an Oxford practice but was surprised to be given an internal examination for a suspected kidney infection.
She said: “In my opinion it (the examination) wasn’t fine, but I thought because he’s a doctor if you put a complaint then maybe I would look stupid.”
She added: “I think the worst thing about the whole thing was how he was watching me undressing.”
The witness said she telephoned her husband straight after the appointment in September 2008 and told him “that was horrible, I just had this man who’s a bit funny doing this internal”.
She then cancelled a follow-up appointment with Srinivas, but said he called her at work to ask why she had done so.
The trial continues.
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