A paedophile doctor, already serving 18 years in jail for attacks on children carried out while he worked at the same hospital as disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile, today had another four years added to his sentence.

Already facing death in jail, consultant paediatrician 81-year-old Michael Salmon was convicted by jury of 14 more cases of sexually assaulting girls after the victims came forward after he was jailed for similar offences in February 2015.

Judge Johanna Cutts QC who sentenced him again following a jury trial at Reading Crown Court said his four-year prison term should be seen as an addition to last year's sentence, making it a 22-year sentence for all 16 girl victims the doctor assaulted and raped in Stoke Mandeville Hospital from 1975 to 1989.

Salmon who had denied one count of rape of a 14-year-old girl and 25 counts of indecent assault against young girls and one boy in the 1970s and 1980s, was convicted of 14 counts of indecent assault by a majority jury verdict and acquitted of one count of rape, one count of indecent assault of a male person and 10 counts of indecent assault.

After 39 hours and 16 minutes of deliberation, the four women and eight men of the jury last week reached majority verdicts by 11 to one in six counts of indecent assault and by a majority of 10 to two in eight counts of indecent assault.

About a dozen of the perverted consultant's victims sat in the public gallery as the judge today told of how the formerly respected doctor thought he was "bomb proof" as he abused his position of trust had separated girls from their parents to conduct unnecessary vaginal examinations and rub their breasts.

The court heard the victims in this year's trial were "much younger" than last year's and the judge said: "Last year following a trial at this court you were convicted of two offences of rape and eight offences of indecent assault of six girls aged between 12 and 18.

"As a result of the publicity which arose during and after that trial other women came forward to say they too were indecently assaulted by you during medical examinations be you when they were children.

The judge said parents and GPs would routinely send children to Dr Salmon at the hospital as "by the late 1970s and the 1980s you had a distinguished career as a consultant paediatrician.

"It goes without saying that doctors must act ethically and appropriately at all times. It is clear now that the esteem in which you were held was utterly misplaced.

"You were using the opportunities given to you as their doctor to sexually assault them. It seems to me that you considered yourself bomb-proof with conceited arrogance and complete disregard for your young female patients."

She described how the perverted doctor conducted vaginal examinations, penetrating them with his fingers, telling others of how he enjoyed sex with his wife and asking them if they had sex with their boyfriends and offering them the pill without being asked.

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Salmon worked at Stoke Mandeville Hospital

The judge said he even showed victims books about sex and carried on: "You felt free to do so in the knowledge that while children did not like intimate examinations they would not question them - you were their doctor.

"All children referred to you were ill and manifestly vulnerable.

"You engineered circumstances to be alone in the consultant room with those you chose to abuse.

"In one case you visited a girl who was sick in bed at home and persuaded her mother to let you see her alone in her room."

Judge Cutts retold each of the 10 victim's ordeals to the court and explained that Dr Salmon would face life in jail for assault by penetration but had to be sentenced in accordance to before the laws over sex offending changed in the 1990.

The court heard his offending only stopped after it came to light when police were investigating Salmon over fraud allegations.

He admitted three counts of sex assaults, again over the same period, in 1989 and was suspended from his practice and sentenced in 1990.

Judge Cutts noted his offending stopped and said he no longer posed a risk to children, adding: "All your offending - your three sets of offending to date - occurred in the same period.

"You have never showed the slightest contrition or remorse for your actions.

"You are now 81 years of age and serving a lengthy sentence already. Any sentence I pass today must take that into account.

"It is argued I should not impose any additional term. It is clear you no longer pose a risk to children.

"I cannot ignore the impact of your behaviour on so many of your child patients. Your offending, albeit so many years ago, has affected them through the years.

"Your offending spanned 14 years, all girls were ill at the time and sexually assault by the doctor who was responsible for their health and welfare, they were treated as objects for you sexual gratification."