Dr Robert Lewis (Picture South Beds News Agnecy)

A GP groped more than 20 women ambulance and fire brigade recruits – and rubbed one woman’s breasts like he was ‘polishing headlights’, a jury heard.

Another woman claimed that Dr Robert Lewis was ‘like a 14 year old boy grabbing his first pair of boobs’.

The 50-year-old, who is a GP at the Larkfield Surgery at Stotfold, near Hitchin, allegedly molested the women during medical examinations for the paramedic and fire services in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.

Dr Lewis, of Northbridge Street, Shefford, Beds pleads not guilty to 37 charges against 23 women.


Prosecutor Mark Fenhalls QC told Luton crown court: ‘The indecent assaults took place in the context of a medical examination. Sometimes a nurse was present in the room, on the other side of a modesty screen.



‘The defendant was taking advantage of young women who were desperate to pass the medical and give themselves the best possible chance of getting a job.

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Mr Fenhalls described one woman’s reaction, ‘She said he was like a 14 year old boy grabbing his first pair of boobs. It wasn’t an examination, it was a two hand grab. He just cupped them. just felt shocked. He’s looking for lumps I am pretty sure that not how you do it but he is a doctor.

When questioned by the police Dr Lewis denied assaulting any patients.