A lab technician told a jury how she ‘she lay and

A lab technician told a jury how she ‘she lay and closed her eyes’ as a bogus shrink performed an internal examination.

The 33-year-old Essex woman said she was surprised when Michael Lytton, 53, told her to take off her knickers but she trusted him as a doctor.

‘I believed him to be a medical doctor and a specialist.

I presumed he was qualified to do it.

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Lytton, 53, is accused of indecently assaulting the mother of one and raping another patient after putting her in a trance.

Jurors heard how the lab technician and her husband visited Lytton at his ‘consulting rooms’ in Ilford which doubled as his flat.

She was trying to overcome emotional problems after a car crash, Snaresbrook Crown Court has heard.

During the consultation Lytton asked searching questions about the couple’s sex life which she thought was ‘odd.

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Then he told her to pop upstairs and strip off, the court was told.

‘He wanted to give me an examination.

He took me upstairs.

He didn’t explain anything, so I didn’t know what to expect.

‘He asked me to remove my clothing down to my underwear.

He asked me to sit on the bed.

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The victim described to the court how Lytton took her blood pressure and monitored her heart rate using a stethoscope.

‘Then he told me he needed to do an internal examination.

He asked me to remove my knickers and I did,’ she said.

‘I didn’t expect it.

I asked him why he had to do it.

He said it was to make sure everything was okay.

‘She was told to sit on the end of the bed and Lytton covered her with a towel, the court heard.

‘He asked me to put my feet on the end of the bed.

Then he put a clamp in, or something that they would use if you were to have a smear.

‘I wasn’t not looking at him during the procedure.

It was not a pleasant thing to have done.

‘I just lay there and shut my eyes and nothing else was said.

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She saw Lytton walking over to the cupboard in the bedroom with a specimen, but could not remember seeing what he did with it.

After the examination the couple left the flat and she told her husband what had happened.

‘As soon as I got in the car I said he gave me an internal.

‘My husband looked a bit surprised as to why he would do it,’ she said.

Several months later the women was told by solicitors acting for her after the accident that Lytton did not have the qualifications he claimed.

He was pretending to to be a doctor of clinical psychology with a doctorare from Toronto University, the court has heard.

She told the court: ‘He was not qualified as far as I was concerned.

He could have been any man in the street.

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Lytton is said to have assaulted and raped a 27-year-old accounts clerk after hypnotising her to accept his sexual advances.

But the defendant claims the patients are ‘liars’.

Lytton, of Royston Gardens, Ilford, denies rape, two charges of indecent assault, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

The trial continues.

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