Paedophile children’s doctor jailed for 22 years over abuse of boys in his care

A children’s doctor who abused 18 boys in his care has been jailed for 22 years after a judge described him as the worst paedophile he had ever seen.

Myles Bradbury, aged 41, from Herringswell, Suffolk, worked as a paediatric consultant haematologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge — where he carried out medical examinations on boys “purely for his own sexual gratification” — Cambridge Crown Court heard.

All of the victims suffered from leukaemia, haemophilia or other serious conditions. Some have since died.

He filmed some of them using a spy pen and abused others behind a curtain while their parents were in the room.

He pleaded guilty to 25 offences, including sexual assault, voyeurism, and possessing over 16,000 indecent images, against boys aged between 10 and 16.

Bradbury showed little emotion as he was jailed.

Placing him on the sex offenders’ register for life and making him subject to a sexual offences prevention order, Judge Gareth Hawkesworth said: “I have never come across a more culpable and grave course of sexual criminality which has involved such a gross and grotesque breach and betrayal of your Hippocratic Oath and trust reposed in you by your patients, their families and colleagues.

The sentence means Bradbury will never see his daughter, born during the police investigation, unsupervised. He was sacked from his job earlier this year and will never work as a doctor again, the court heard.

Prosecutor John Farmer said the defendant had a “long-standing, unlawful, sexual interest in boys”. He abused the boys “for his own personal gratification”.

The offences took place over four-and-a-half years, beginning within six months of him taking up his post in 2008 and continuing to the day he was suspended when the first concerns were raised.

Mr Farmer explained Bradbury was first arrested in December 2013 after police were alerted by Canadian authorities that he had bought a DVD containing indecent images of children. At that point Cambridgeshire Police were already investigating after concerns were raised about his conduct.