Jomo Mathurine sentenced for voyeurism at Reading Crown Court.

The gynaecologist also set up covert cameras to record his sex encounters with a student nurse girlfriend.

Details of the NHS and private medicine expert's exploits were revealed to a judge on Thursday when consultant Jomo Mathurine was sentenced at Reading Crown Court.

Mathurine had set up multiple hidden cameras at his victim’s student accommodation, where they would meet for casual sex.

When his 19-year-old victim found out her middle-aged lover had secretly made more than 100 clips of her and other women, sometimes during sexual acts, he had told her he would “take her down” using the media as leverage, the judge was told.

The 49-year-old obstetrician and gynaecologist was a well-respected and senior consultant at the hospital where they both worked, the court heard, so she felt afraid to report him to the police.

Outlining the case, the prosecutor said Mathurine’s voyeurism was “of a considered, sustained and devious nature, with the defendant taking full advantage of his relationship with a much younger victim."

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A barrister defending the disgraced doctor argued he should not be jailed, saying: “What we are left with is Mr Mathurine, who has practiced for his whole life as a doctor, losing that. That, in my submission, goes beyond the punitive element of imprisonment.”

While based at the East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, Surrey, Mathurine had worked as a visiting consultant at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, Berkshire, which was where he met his victim - a student nurse.

Ian Hope, prosecuting, said: “She was aged 19 years, he was in his late 40s. He offered to provide her with assistance for her studies. She was completing a work placement, he was one of the most senior members of staff at the hospital.

"They began a sexual relationship in September 2016 which ran on and off for about two years."

The prosecutor added: "In Autumn last year, the victim became concerned the defendant was accessing her personal messages. He confirmed in fact he had been.

"The victim saw a graphic video on the consultant's iMac of her performing oral sex on him at her flat in Reading, which she did not realise had been taken.

Mr Hope continued: “She confronted him. In that conversation he threatened to take her down, which she took to be a threat. He said he was going to show everyone this video.

“The relationship limped through to January this year. The victim felt pressurised to continue seeing him because she knew that he had that video.

“He said he had made that recording so he could watch it while masturbating and said he had not asked for permission because he knew she would say no.”

The victim told police she saw further recordings on his ipad, in student accommodation that she recognised and other members of staff that she recognised.

Mr Hope said: “Around this time, she asked him why he would risk his career making covert sexual videos of her. He said ‘in life, you have to take risks'.”

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The judge heard that on January 2, 2019, the victim broke down in tears to a fellow student and said Mathurine had been using the secret images as leverage over her.

An argument erupted at her student accommodation when Mathurine arrived and demanded to know who she had been speaking to, having been listening outside her door, before taking her phone away.

She called for a security guard, who told police how Mathurine had called the victim "a slut."

The next day, the victim and her friend attended Reading police station, the court heard.

Mathurine was arrested at his family home on December 10, after which he gave a no-comment interview to police and Reading Crown Court heard he had refused to give up his PIN codes and passwords for his digital devices, including his iMac, for a long time.

When police did access his material, the prosecutor said, they found 15 still images and 96 video clips, some of the victim and others of other women, some of whom were members of staff at the hospital where Mathurine worked.

Mr Hope said an investigation was ongoing into whether the clips of the other women had been taken without permission.

Mathurine had been operating multiple recording devices at the same time, the court heard, using a pair of “covert digital spectacles” and a hidden key fob which he set up in different positions throughout the victim’s student flat over the course of two years.

In a victim impact statement, the young student nurse, who was due to qualify from her studies in January this year, had said she felt “worthless” and had been having difficulties sleeping, numerous panic attacks and flashbacks.

She had since left England to live with her family abroad.

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Mathurine had admitted three counts of voyeurism when he appeared for a plea and trial preparation hearing, the court heard, and had been suspended by the General Medical Council pending an investigation.

Defending the doctor, Thalia Maragh said: “The threat or words of threat of exposing her is one which I submit is not something that he would have carried out. As a senior consultant at the level he was, it would have reflected negatively on him.

“He is highly regarded in his profession. He became a doctor in 1995, qualified in Trinidad and Tobago, then he came here. He went through all the training, made all the sacrifices to get to the level of senior consultant that he has.”

Ms Maragh pointed to character references submitted by Mathurine’s peers in the NHS and a 360-degree report outlining his professionalism and dedication to patients in the workplace, adding that the defendant had been to see a counsellor four times to try to address the reasons behind his offending.

Judge Sarah Campbell, questioning the counsellor’s findings, said: “A very experienced probation officer has formed the view Mr Mathurine has issues with sexual entitlement.”

Mathurine, of Twin Flower, Milton Keynes, sat in the dock wearing a smart suit.

Judge Campbell, in sentencing, said: “Prior to January this year you were a well-respected hard working consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, known for your excellent patient care.

“There was a dark and devious side of this character, an obsession with voyeurism. No doubt these offences will come as a great shock to those with whom you worked and no doubt will be a concern to anyone treated by you, given your profession.

“Your guilty pleas to this matter seriously let down the profession that you performed.”

The judge jailed Mathurine for 14 months and made him subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years which prohibited from making any image with a woman as the subject without her prior consent.