A family doctor has walked free from court today after being acquitted of molesting six women while carrying out examinations at his surgery.

A jury of six women and six men returned unanimous not guilty verdicts on all 15 charges against Dr Babatunde Oshinusi.

His QC Adrian Darbishire said the 43-year-old married GP remained suspended and would probably still find himself defending the same conduct before the General Medical Council.

Dr Oshinusi, of Tunbury Avenue, Walderslade, Chatham, denied 12 charges of assault by penetration and three of sexual assault.

He was alleged to have committed the offences at St Mary’s Medical Centre in Strood, where he was a partner, between 2007 and 2010.

One of the women was aged 81 when she complained that the father-of-two had touched her in a sexual way in 2010 when she went to see him about a bladder problem.

Prosecutor Simon Taylor told Maidstone Crown Court the alleged assaults took place on the pretext of Nigeria-born Dr Oshinusi purporting to examine the patients as part of his medical duties.

The intimate examinations, he said, were “unnecessary, gratuitous or inappropriate” and sexual, not medical. The GP claimed he was acting in accordance with good medical practice at all times.

Five of the women claimed they were not offered a chaperone during the examinations. The sixth said she was offered one but declined because she trusted him.

One of the women, aged 38, said she went to see Oshinusi in March 2010 about stomach problems and he told her to remove her upper clothing so that he could examine her breasts.

She claimed the GP then told her to remove her lower clothing and proceeded to give her intimate examination with her on all fours.

Dr Oshinusi denied he either examined the woman’s breasts or asked her to be examined in that position.

He stood with his head bowed as the foreman delivered the verdicts and then said: “Thank you.”