A former doctor has appeared in court charged with sexual offences involving five young people in Brighton, West Sussex, Hampshire and the West Midlands between 18 and 24 years ago.
Robert Cameron Wells, 68, formerly of Hangleton Road, Hove, appeared at Brighton Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 4 March, charged with 19 offences.
Wells, a former police surgeon who also practised privately in Brighton and Hove, did not enter a plea.
The ex-GP and police forensic medical examiner was remanded in custody for an initial appearance at Lewes Crown Court on Wednesday 1 April.
He is charged with
– Two offences of raping a nine-year old girl in Brighton in 2001 and one offence of gross indecency with the same girl also in Brighton in 2001
– One offence of inciting an eight-year-old boy to commit an act of gross indecency, one offence of gross indecency with the same boy and one offence of trying to obtain an indecent photograph of a child, the same boy, all in West Sussex in 1998
– One offence of indecently assaulting a 15-year-old girl in West Sussex in 1998
– Two offences of indecently assaulting a woman aged 17 or 18 in 2000 and 2002, one in the West Midlands and one in Hampshire
– Six offences of indecently assaulting a girl aged nine in 2001, one in the West Midlands, the rest in Brighton, and four offences of taking an indecent photograph of a child, all involving the same girl, one in the West Midlands, the others in the Brighton area
The charges, authorised by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), follow an investigation by detectives from the West Sussex Safeguarding Investigations Unit.
Sussex Police said that there were no current or recent safeguarding issues or concerns for the safety of young people or the wider community in relation to this investigation.
