Expect jail, sex case GP told

Baillie will be sentenced at a later date

A Glasgow doctor who admitted carrying out indecent assaults on women patients has been told he can expect a substantial jail sentence.

David Baillie was struck off by the General Medical Council last year after patients complained about him.

He carried out what the High Court in Dunfermline heard was a "campaign of indecency" beginning in January 1986 and ending in May 2000.

He pleaded guilty to assaulting 17 women, aged between 16 and 30.

The shamed GP carried out the assaults on 13 women at his surgery at Maryhill Health Centre in Glasgow and another four at a student medical practice, over a 14-year period.

The judge, Lady Cosgrove, deferred sentence on Baillie, now of Wishaw, until 17 November at the High Court in Edinburgh.

'Catalogue of offences'

Ordering that his name should be entered on the Sex Offenders' Register, she told him: "Be in no doubt whatsoever that the only outcome of this will be a substantial prison sentence, given the very serious view I am bound to take of this catalogue of offences."

Allegations that the injuries to two patients had been severe, that one woman had been left permanently impaired and that two pregnant patients lost babies as a result of his assaults were dropped by the Crown.

Brian McConnachie, prosecuting, said some of Ballie's patients were still receiving counselling as a result what happened to them.

Baillie is a former doctor for the Scotland under-21 rugby team.