A doctor, who worked at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesborough, is being accused in a trial of inappropriately touching three female patients.

It was herd in the trial that the consultant anaesthetist touched three patients' breasts while joking about to nurses about "Wonderbras". It was alleged that Dr Stephen Graham cupped the breasts of one of the patients, who was sedated at the time, with his hands during surgery ad said that it was his Wonderbra technique while making a `cleavage gesture'.

The consultant anaesthetist is also facing accusation of having stared `inappropriately' at two other female patients, who were undergoing an intimate form of treatment. It was also alleged at the General Medical Council hearing that Dr. Graham moved one patient's legs and used light on her private parts for no real reason and then stared at her throughout the procedure. In another incidence, he is accused of holding a patient's breasts while he listened to her heartbeat with a stethoscope.

Dr Graham is facing misconduct charges after nurses made complaints against him after the incidences with seven patients since as long as March 2006.