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.