A paedophile doctor has been found guilty of sexually abusing an eight-year-old boy from Hove after sedating him.
Robert Cameron Wells, 69, formerly of Hangleton Road, Hove, was convicted by a jury at Hove Crown Court today (Tuesday 27 July).
Wells, who also previously lived at Brighton Marina, was convicted unanimously of two counts of indecency with a child and a charge of trying to take an indecent image of a child.
He denied the charges and went on trial a week ago but the jury took less than three hours to find him guilty.
Wells admitted a separate charge of indecency with a child, two counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault and four counts of taking indecent photographs of a child.
Most of the offences took place in the Brighton and Hove area where Wells worked as a GP (general practitioner) until 2003. He admitted abusing two girls, one of them aged nine, and two 18-year-old women.
One of the indecent assaults involved a 15-year-old girl. Wells assaulted her at his surgery in Portslade in 1998 when she went to him for advice about an abortion.
He was working as a forensic medical examiner, or police doctor, for Hampshire Constabulary when he abused the eight-year-old boy in the 1990s. Patients and parents appeared to have trusted him even more because he was not just a doctor but a police doctor.
Robert Wells is due to be sentenced by Judge David Rennie on Monday 6 September.
The jury was told that, in 2004, Wells was convicted of abusing three girls and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was struck off as a doctor.
He was released in 2014 but returned to prison the following year for breaching the terms of his licence.
Shortly afterwards further complaints were made about him. As a result, he was convicted of four indecent assaults involving three young girls and in April 2017 he was sentenced to seven years behind bars.
Yesterday, Jennifer Knight, prosecuting, told the jury at Hove Crown Court that the young boy abused by Wells was now a troubled 31-year-old man.
Wells took the boy from a birthday party, sedated him and drove him to an industrial site where he was forced to take part in a sick film with a girl who also appeared to have been drugged.
Miss Knight said: “This quite literally is the stuff of nightmares.
“There is a chilling – almost film-like – element to his experiences … It sounds like a nightmare because it was a nightmare … the feverish imaginings of a disturbed mind.”
Whhy was such an evil monster released in 2014? Surely those responsble for his release are partly to blame for his subsequent behaviour.
The offences against the 8 year old boy happened long before 2014. This scum has been a monster for over 30 years. He should be put down. His solicitor should hang his head in shame for trying to trash the reputation of the young man whose life this creature has ruined.
Heard he was on the RIANS list of people involved in Satanism. A lot of people from Hampshire.