EXCLUSIVE: Doctor faces fourth 'sex assault on patient' allegation 32 years after first claims surfaced - medic faced three earlier investigations over three decades

A screenshot of a Mailonline report from 2017 about Dr Danjuma's last fitness to practice hearing, featuring an image of the medic provided by Cavendish Press.

A doctor, who has faced three separate sex assault cases, involving seven female alleged victims over three decades, has been accused of new sexually-motivated offences against another patient.

Dr Joel Danjuma, 69, (pictured above) has continued to work in medicine after serious sexual allegations were made at a criminal trial in 1992 and later during two separate fitness to practice hearings heard in 2002 and 2017.

He is now facing new allegations that he carried out two "inappropriate" and "sexually motivated" examinations on another female patient in 2022.

Nigerian-born Dr Danjuma qualified as a doctor in 1984 at the Higher Medical Institute Sofia, Bulgaria.

He was working for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs a number of hospitals in the county, when the two examinations on the woman are said to have happened.

A public notice published by the MPTS last week ahead of the hearing states: "The tribunal will inquire into the allegation that, on 16 October 2022, Dr Danjuma conducted two inappropriate examinations on Patient A. It is alleged that Dr Danjuma failed to obtain consent from Patient A, did not use recognised examination techniques and failed to offer Patient A a chaperone.

"It is alleged that Dr Danjuma's actions were sexually motivated."

The hearing is set to begin tomorrow, on Tuesday, April 22 2025, at a Manchester hearing centre and last until May 6.

In the meantime Dr Danjuma remains registered with GMC, with a licence to practice, according to its register.

Since May 22 2024, he has been placed under a number of conditions, including that he must not "carry out consultations with female patients without a chaperone" being present and he must "keep a log detailing every case where he has carried out a consultation with such a patient, which must be signed by the chaperone."

He is allowed to carry out consultations with females without a chaperone being present in "life-threatening" circumstances with logs kept of any such instances.

Other conditions include notifying the GMC of any new posts within seven days and any prospective new employers must be made aware of his conditions in advance of employing him.

However, the GMC said he is not currently working.

Archive newspaper (above) reports show that in October 1992 he was cleared by a jury of eight men and three women at Liverpool Crown Court of five charges of indecently assaulting four female patients at Wigan Infirmary, where he was an orthopedic doctor.

He had been accused of feeling the women's breasts and touching the private areas of two of them within weeks of being appointed as a senior house doctor.

The prosecution alleged he was a "Jekyll and Hyde" character who gratified "strange desires" by sexually assaulting the patients.

The court heard that two of the alleged victims discharged themselves early against medical advice due to his alleged behaviour.

In one case he was said to have placed hid hand inside a woman's bra and pressed her groin.

He should have not been treating another woman, who had pneumonia, but he allegedly fondled her breasts, but told police he went to her aid as she looked "lonely".

Rodney Carus QC, prosecuting, said: "Taking advantage of his position as a medical practitioner, he was in truth gratifying his own strange desires."

Dr Danjuma strenuously denied all the allegations and said his examinations had been entirely professional.

His wife at the time kissed and hugged him after the verdict, the Wigan Observer reported at the time.

A Wigan Health Authority spokesman said after the case he was on secondment from Nigeria for 12 months at the time and was likely to return there at its end.

Dr Danjuma was subject to a separate GMC fitness to practice case, but he was allowed to remain registered and by 1999 was working as a casualty doctor at Macclesfield District General Hospital.

In July 2002 a GMC fitness to practice hearing was heard into more recent claims that he sexually assaulted two vulnerable women patients, who were admitted to hospital after trying to kill themselves.

Dr Danjuma, who was a locum doctor in the accident and emergency department and living in Manchester at the time, was alleged to have carried out the attacks on May 30 and June 3, 1999.

He allegedly fondled the breasts of Miss A, then aged in her 30s, while he was examining a self-inflicted wound to her chest.

The mother-of-two had stabbed herself with a kitchen knife.

She told the hearing that the doctor indecently assaulted her on two or three occasions, but that she did not report it at the time as she feared being sectioned due to a ten-year history of depression.

He was also accused of indecently assaulting a Miss B, who had tried to kill herself with an overdose of prescription drugs, in the hospital's A&E ward.

Dr Danjuma vehemently denied the allegations from both women and following the hearing he remained on the GMC register and able to practise.

By 2004 Dr Danjuma moved to Broughton, Milton Keynes, where he set up a now dissolved medical company in 2004.

He also began working at Milton Keynes hospital as a locum.

In 2016 it emerged he had been suspended by the hospital.

It followed a complaint from a 65-year-old woman that he sexually assaulted her in June 2012 while she was alone with him in A&E.

It was the same year the MPTS took over the running of fitness to practice hearings from the GMC, which still initially investigates doctors accused of misconduct.

An interim MPTS hearing in November 2016 heard Dr Danjuma applied earlier in the year for a judicial review to prevent the regulatory body from launching a fitness to practice investigation against him.

He lost that civil action after the GMC successfully argued it had a duty to protect the health and safety of patients and that previous complaints of a similar nature made against him were a "relevant consideration".

He was placed under the restriction not to carry out consultations on females without a chaperone, unless it was a life-threatening situation, at that time.

The full hearing took place in February 2017.

It heard allegations that Dr Danjuma spent several minutes fondling her breasts after she came into A&E with shoulder pain.

The woman's claims had been investigated by police, who took no further action, but referred the case to the GMC, which launched a new investigation.

It argued to the MPTS that his fitness to practice was impaired and that he should be erased from the GMC register.

The subsequent MPTS hearing heard from the woman who said she was terrified as Dr Danjuma had grunted and said "Ugh" and "Ahh" as the alleged assault took place.

She told the hearing: "He told me 'sit up' and to pull my top up to the neck and then he said 'now lie on your side' - my shoulder did really hurt at this point too.

"I was lying on my left and he said bring your knee up, and then he pulled my top up as far as it could. He got hold of my breast and he started playing with it and squeezing and kneading. 'He was making "ugh" noises and I was in tears. I tried to push him away."

Counsel for the GMC Katherine Johnson said: "She describes him as playing with her breasts and nipples for several minutes without saying anything. Patient A said that she felt shocked by Dr Danjuma's behaviour and didn't know what to do.

"She knew what was happening was not right or appropriate but she was intimidated by the face of Dr Danjuma - a doctor and a figure of authority."

The case heard that Dr Danjuma high fived the woman's daughter when she came to collect her, before the alleged victim later disclosed to her what had happened.

The case heard that in a police interview Dr Danjuma said: "I can tell you categorically that I didn't examine this woman's breast - there was no need to."

He denied any sexually motivated misconduct and the hearing concluded with the MPTS panel finding that his fitness to practice was not impaired, meaning he was, again, able to continue in the profession.

A GMC spokeswoman said: "Dr Joel Danjuma is currently registered with a licence to practise but with interim conditions on his registration pending the conclusion of a GMC investigation. He has been referred to a hearing by a medical practitioners tribunal (MPT) run by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS), which is listed to start on 22 April.

"Throughout the current GMC investigation, Dr Danjuma has had interim restrictions imposed on his registration since November 2022, and these are still in place.

"The concerns, which are the subject of the doctor’s upcoming tribunal, were first raised with the GMC at the end of October 2022. We took swift action to refer the doctor to an IOT at the MPTS, where interim restrictions were first imposed in November 2022.

"I can confirm that the doctor is not currently working."