A paedophile children's doctor who used a spy camera inside a pen to record his child patients jailed for 22 years.

      A paedophile children's doctor who used a spy camera inside a pen to record his child patients was jailed for 22 years today after he admitted abusing 18 seriously ill boys in his care.Myles Bradbury, 41, a consultant paediatric haematologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, admitted abusing boys aged between ten and 16, including children with leukaemia, haemophilia, and other serious illnesses.Judge Gareth Hawkeworth, sitting at Cambridge Crown Court, described Bradbury's actions as 'one of the worst forms of sexual abuse imaginable'. Married Bradbury, from Herring swell, Suffolk, carried out medical examinations on boys 'purely for his own sexual gratification', the court heard.

    In some cases he exaggerated the seriousness of the child's illness to give him more opportunities to abuse particular patients. He filmed some of them using secret spy cameras hidden inside pens in his pocket and abused others behind a curtain while their unsuspecting parents were in the room.In total, he pleaded guilty to 25 offences, including sexual assault, voyeurism and possessing more than 16,000 indecent images, against boys aged between 10 and 16, and was sentenced today.Some of the victims have since died, without seeing their abuser brought to justice. 

        Judge Gareth Hawkesworth said Bradbury's sentence would be reduced because of his early guilty pleas although 'some might observe' that the overwhelming evidence against him meant he had little choice but to admit the offences.Describing Bradbury as 'manipulative', he added: 'For a doctor to attack children in this way is one of the worst forms of sexual abuse imaginable even if it does not involve physical violence which goes beyond the abuse itself or penetrative activity.'The judge continued: 'These boys were all vulnerable and gravely ill.'In all my years on the bench, I have never come across a more culpable and grave course of sexual criminality which has involved such a gross and grotesque breach and betrayal of your Hippocratic Oath and trust reposed in you by your patients, their families and colleagues. Via.daily mail