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A receptionist told the GMC how a doctor stroked her breast and bottom and asked: ‘Does that turn you on?’

The 43-year-old mother claimed she was terrified by locum GP Ayoola Makanjuola during the two-month campaign of sexual harassment.

She said he quizzed her about her sex life, told her he had a ‘hard-on’ and asked if she could feel it pressed against her body.

The woman, known only as Miss W, finally reported Dr Makanjuola when he followed her upstairs to a cramped kitchen at the out-of-hours centre in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.

Miss W, from Burnt Oak, Middlesex, said at first she was impressed by Dr Makanjuola on their first day together on April 1, 2002.

‘I had never seen a black doctor before and he had made a lot of sacrifices.

But I just did not like the way he looked at me.

‘It turned out he lived just round the corner from me.

The next session he told me what my door was like and I was shocked.

‘He did ask what I would do if he knocked on my door.

I just said ”Never do that.

”

‘He said he would like to take me out.

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Miss W said she tried to laugh off Dr Makanjuola’s sexual innuendos but added: ‘It was quite unnerving.

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‘I think I was probably a bit giggly because I did not know what to do.

He wanted to know the last time I had sex.

‘He said he found me quite sexy.

He said he had a hard-on, he said I had a nice bottom.

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She denied encouraging him and told how be began to touch her at every opportunity when they were alone together.

‘I took in some paperwork and he touched my bottom with the palm of my hand and stroked it.

I was shocked.

‘I said: ”Don’t do that.

” He said he could not help it.

Another time he put his hand on my breast.

‘Two or three times he pulled me towards him to see if I could feel his hard-on.

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She claimed the doctor told her not to report him because it would land him in trouble.

‘I felt I would not be believed and I was quite aware he would get into trouble.

‘My biggest fear was that I would go upstairs to the kitchen and he would come up there.

It was my nightmare.

‘Then one time he came up there.

He had a smirk on his face.

‘I picked up something, a knife or a cup and said ”Don’t come near me.

” He left I thought I have had enough of this.

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The doctor later denied he had ever touched Miss W but admitted ‘personal issues’ had been discussed during work.

Makanjuola, of 59 Page Street, Mill Hill, northwest London, denies serious professional misconduct.

The hearing continues.

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