Doctor cleared of ‘masturbation’ blood tests

A renowned therapeutic doctor has been cleared of molesting ten patients as young as 14 after asking them for sperm samples. Ariel Lant, 81, was said to have indecently assaulted four men and six teenagers while treating them at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Fulham Road between 1978 and 1994. The professor of therapeutics branded the allegations ‘ridiculous’ and a ‘conspiracy against him.’ Lant insisted he was never in the same room when patients provided semen samples and jurors today…