Former doctor denies committing 45 sex offences on patients
The crimes are alleged to have been committed against 38 women and girls
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A former doctor has pleaded not guilty to 45 sexual offences, alleged to have been committed against 38 women and girls, between 2017 and 2021.
Nathaniel Spencer was charged in December last year, after what Staffordshire Police described as a complex investigation into alleged sexual assaults on patients at the Royal Stoke University Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent and Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley.
Spencer, from Hockley, Birmingham, now faces a crown court trial, starting at Loughborough Courthouse in October next year.
The 39 year-old pleaded not guilty at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court on Monday to 15 counts of sexual assault, 17 counts of assault by penetration, nine counts of sexual assault of a child under 13, three counts of assaulting a child under 13 by penetration and one count of attempted assault by penetration.
It took the clerk of the court just under 15 minutes to put all of the charges to Spencer, whose youngest alleged victims are aged six and seven.
Spencer, a former resident doctor with The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, made his first court appearance at North Staffordshire Justice Centre in January.
Renewing Spencer’s bail at his second appearance at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court, Judge Graeme Smith informed him there would be a further preparatory hearing at the same court on February 8 next year.