Prof ‘gave teenage patients masturbation lessons’

A renowned therapeutic doctor asked patients as young as 14 to give him a sperm sample while teaching them ‘how to masturbate,’ a court heard. Dr Ariel Lant, 81, allegedly molested four men and six teenagers while treating them at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Fulham Road over a 17 year period between 1978 and 1994, Southwark Crown Court heard. The professor of therapeutics denies all charges against him, branding them ‘ridiculous’ and a ‘conspiracy against him.’ In a prepared…