A disgraced hospital consultant who sexually assaulted two nurses was jailed for six years on Friday.

Top A&E consultant Dr Ram Manohar. who was lead for trauma training on Merseyside, was convicted of three sex offences following a ten day trial at Liverpool Crown Court.

Jailing 38-year-old Manohar, who showed no emotion, Judge Andrew Menary, QC, described the case as a tragedy.

"A tragic case which has had and will continue to have a profound affect on the lives of three people and many others besides. You yourself and the two victims concerned. All three of you are people I am perfectly satisfied who had intended that your lives should be dedicated to helping others.

"As a result of your behaviour in October and December 2013 they have suffered enormous emotional injury which has been devastating and debilitating for them and the effects of this will likely last for a very long time.

"The consequences for you of these moments of madness is that your career is in ruins and you must serve a significant sentence of imprisonment."

The victims were both nurses with one of them attending Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, where he was based, as a patient. 

Judge Menary said Manohar, father of two children, had been held in high regard by colleagues and had a passion for training and development of trauma facilities but had abused his position of trust.

"You will never practice medicine again and that represents not only an enormous loss to you and your family but a loss to medicine generally."

Mahohar, of Dale End Road, Barnston, Wirral, denied four sex offences and was cleared by the jury of one of them.

He was ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life and will be struck off by the GMC.

The jury heard how one of the victims came to him as a patient and he knew she had a worrying neurological condition and under the pretext of a neurological assessment he repeatedly touched her.

Judge Menary told him, "She was entitled to expect that a consultant would behave properly in carrying out an intimate examination and you abused that trust."

She did not then complain as she trusted him and an attraction developed between them. He wanted a physical no strings attached relationship but after learning he was married she declined.

He kissed her in his office and the judge said, "You were willing to take risks in the hope of gaining some sort of sexual excitement from what you must have regarded as illicit encounters with attractive women."

While trying to maintain email contact with her the other other victim, a trainee nurse, whom he had known from a previous hospital, walked into his department and he offered to provide her with one to one tuition. 

Judge Menary said that would not have been inappropriate and it was clear that he has a "real interest and passion for training.

"However over the course of several hours you decided that this was another opportunity when you could sexually abuse a young woman.

Manohar, who has no previous convictions, denied the allegations and claimed they were "liars and fantasists". He claimed the first one had acted in an inappropriate and suggestive way and the other had been hoping "to bag herself a doctor" and was looking to get back at him when he rejected her.

Miles Bennett, defending, said, "Whatever the sentence his career is ruined. He wasn't just a doctor, he was an exceptional doctor, which makes it even more tragic for him. It is devastating.

"Everything he worked so hard for has been dashed. He was recognised as being exceptional by being made not just consultant of a very busy department at the relatively young age of 36 but was head lead in trauma training for the whole area."