A TRAINEE medic carried out bogus tests on two young women patients for his own sex thrills at an NHS hospital, a jury heard.

Ieuan Crump, 26, allegedly made a "no entry sign" to hang on the wall of his room at the Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran while he carried out the fake tests.  

Prosecutor Matthews Roberts said the defendant carried out "unnecessary" tests "for his own sexual pleasure" on two women.

Mr Roberts said: "He committed a most grotesque abuse of trust placed in him by these two young women."

Jurors were told the first woman came on to the ward after having her appendix removed and complained of swelling in her stomach.

But Crump allegedly used a bladder scanner to examine her bladder and groin – before taking her into a room alone where he inserted a catheter into her – something he was not trained to do.

Mr Roberts said Crump unnecessarily asked the women to pull her shorts down and put her legs up.

He said: "There was absolutely no medical reason or justification for her genitals to be exposed and far less touched.

"This was done for his own sexual pleasure. This was sexual abuse of a patient in a highly vulnerable state, someone obviously in pain and distress and something which was obvious to the defendant."

Crump is also accused of touching a second woman intimately after she was admitted to the ward on the same week with a bowel condition.

She told police he carried out an "intimate" vaginal examination and began examining her bottom when the woman asked why he was doing it.

Mr Roberts said: "All throughout this totally unnecessary and fake medical procedure she was also in considerable visible pain."

Crump from Gilfach, Caerphilly, denies nine counts of sexual assault, including three allegations of sexual assault by penetration.

The trial at Cardiff Crown Court continues.