‘I had to carry out intimate examinations to reassure patients’

A GP accused of performing inappropriate intimate examinations said he had to carry them out to reassure anxious patients. Manish Shah, 53, allegedly abused eight women, some of them teenagers, at a medical centre in Romford, Essex, between October 2009 and July 2013. Shah told the Old Bailey today that he carried out more examinations than usual because they requested them and he wanted to reassure his patients. Shah said he would discuss examinations with his patients and give them…