A former children's doctor has been found guilty of indecently assaulting young girls at Stoke Mandeville Hospital at the same time Jimmy Savile was abusing patients on the wards.
Michael Salmon, 79, was convicted at Reading Crown Court on Friday of indecently assaulting girls at the Buckinghamshire hospital and was also convicted of raping a girl at his home.
He carried out many of his attacks behind a screen in his consulting room, while his victim's parents waited believing he was completing a medical examination.
A jury found him guilty of nine indecent assaults and two rapes carried out against six girls aged 11 to 18, between 1973 and 1988.
Although he worked at Stoke Mandeville at the same time Jimmy Savile is thought to have abused patients at the hospital there is no suggestion of any link between the two.
Salmon had already been struck off the medical register after he admitted three counts of indecent assault against young female patients in 1991.
The father worked as a consultant paediatrician at hospitals in Buckinghamshire including the world-renowned Stoke Mandeville in Aylesbury, which was thrown in to the spotlight following disclosures about abuse by the late Savile in 2011.
Miranda Moore QC, prosecuting, said there is "no suggestion that this defendant abused a young female patient in concert with Jimmy Savile".
"It's simply that these allegations relate to a time when the other things were happening," she said.
Prolific child abuser Savile is believed to have carried out his worst offending at the hospital, where he had his own office after setting up the Jimmy Savile Stoke Mandeville Hospital Trust charity in 1981.
The court previously heard how Salmon thought he was "bomb-proof" because no one would believe a child over him.
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