{"id":637742,"date":"2026-08-14T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/637742\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:57:10","slug":"gp-jailed-for-sexually-assaulting-women-during-examinations-after-road-crashes-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/637742\/","title":{"rendered":"GP jailed for sexually assaulting women during examinations after road crashes \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A GP who sexually assaulted two women during examinations after they had been in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\">road crashes<\/a> has been jailed, police have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Muhammad Iqbal (64) of Julianstown, Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/meath\/\">Meath<\/a>, was charged in relation to incidents in Darlington and Sunderland in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His victims were attending physiotherapy sessions arranged by their insurers following road crashes and were seen by Iqbal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In the first incident, he grabbed the woman\u2019s breast, while in the second he pretended he needed to examine her breast, saying he was checking for lumps, although that was not the reason for the examination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Durham Constabulary said Iqbal was jailed for 18 months at Newcastle Crown Court on Friday and was placed on the sex offender register for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He had denied the offences but was convicted following a trial, the force said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Outside court, Detective Constable Charlotte Naisby, of Durham Constabulary\u2019s complex safeguarding team, said: \u201cIqbal preyed on these women during a very vulnerable period in their lives and his behaviour was despicable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe women should have felt safe being examined by a certified GP, but instead Iqbal not only assaulted them but breached their trust in the most horrendous way and we are glad to see he is now behind bars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sergeant Kimberley Ball, of Northumbria Police, praised the women for speaking out, saying: \u201cI am confident they have made the northeast safer now that this man\u2019s crimes have been brought to light.\u201d \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A GP who sexually assaulted two women during examinations after they had been in road crashes has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,1873,5,11697,7,8,1294,393],"class_list":["post-637742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-meath","tag-news","tag-road-safety","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117096575346110336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}