A British doctor who murdered a pregnant woman in Australia and drugged other female patients has lost his appeal against a sexual offences notification order imposed after he was deported to the UK.
Michael McGrane, 54, was jailed for life in 2001 for the killing four years earlier of Yuen Ling Chan, 29, at her flat in Brisbane after he was said to have injected her with a large dose of morphine.
During the course of the trial, evidence was heard that McGrane, originally from Liverpool, had drugged other female patients for a sexual motive.
On Thursday, Liverpool Crown Court was told that in 2003 he went on to plead guilty to six offences of using a stupefying or overpowering drug, said to be diazepam, in order to commit indecent assaults.
He was also convicted of seven offences of indecent assault and received concurrent jail terms of eight years for the stupefying offences and 18 months for the indecent assaults, the court heard.
Having served his sentence in Australia, proceedings were brought against McGrane on his arrival to the UK under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and an order - which requires offenders to notify police of their whereabouts and any change in their circumstances - was made at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court in Middlesex in June 2013.
Following his return to Merseyside, McGrane, of Victoria Street, Southport, appealed the decision in May this year.
Earlier this month he appeared in person at Liverpool Crown Court and argued there were inaccuracies in the records produced and submitted to the court from the Australian authorities.
McGrane argued the Australian documents were either "incomplete" or "falsified" and that the court did not have the power to make the order sought.
He told the court he accepted the convictions but denied in respect of the stupefying offences the intention had been to indecently assault his patients and did not accept he was convicted on that basis.
His appeal was dismissed and Judge David Aubrey QC handed down his judgment on Thursday in which he rejected the appellant's argument that documents presented to the court had been falsified.
The court also ruled the stupefying offence could properly be construed and found to be an attempted indecent assault in accordance with English law and that it was more than "a mere prepatory act".
The indefinite notification order remains in force save that it is recorded that the relevant offence is attempted indecent assault contrary to section 1 of Criminal Attempts Act 1981.
The court heard the original order was incorrectly covered under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 as the offences committed by McGrane pre-dated the implementation of the act.
