The UK-based Guyanese woman who sued her gynaecologist after accusing him of touching her inappropriately was on Thursday forced to drop the suit and agreed to pay the doctor after evidence emerged she had attempted to seduce another doctor.
The British Daily Mail yesterday reported that the woman, Bibi Giles, 50, who had accused Angus Thompson of giving her two ‘leg buckling’ orgasms in 90 seconds during an examination, dropped her case for sexual harassment and agreed to pay her former doctor £30,000.
Giles, who had originally sued the doctor for £50,000, had testified the incident happened in 2006. However, she was forced to eat her words when another doctor, William Dowley, heard about the case and contacted the court hours before the case was expected to finish on Thursday to reveal her past.
Her counsel, Mark Lyne, according to the newspaper report, failed in a bid to prevent the evidence from being presented and the woman and her husband Peter, who had said he knew of the incident, agreed to drop the case and pay Dr Thompson £30,000 in costs.
Judge Daniel Pearce-Higgins, who heard the case, on Thursday said: “Life would have been much easier if Mrs Giles had admitted this incident at the start of the case.”
Dr Thompson, a married father-of-three, had raged earlier in proceedings that the allegations were a “road to Damascus thing,” adding that every time a male doctor sees a female patient they could “say this sort of thing.”
He broke down in tears after the case was dropped and spoke of his “enormous relief’ that Mr Dowley came forward.” “They threatened to ruin my career and reputation and therefore I’m enormously relieved and delighted that this case has been concluded with my full exoneration of these false allegations and that I’m now able to return to work on Monday with my professional reputation in tact,” the newspaper reported him as saying. The hearing had previously heard suggestions that Giles told Thompson she had once been a Miss Guyana, although it is something she has denied.
The court had also heard that her husband Peter, a quantity surveyor, was a diplomat in Russia and that she had been involved in treating Michael Jackson and Oprah Winfrey in her work as a cosmetologist. It also emerged that Giles was friendly with presidents and members of parliament in Guyana and that she had met royalty, namely Princess Anne, at a function.
The woman had claimed in court that, during an examination following her operation, Thompson had ‘rhythmically’ stroked her vagina, giving her two ‘leg-buckling’ involuntary orgasms in 90 seconds with a nurse chaperone standing just feet away. She alleged that, shortly before the procedure, he had also kissed her.
But despite all of this she remained his patient as both she and her husband did not want to go through the trouble of finding another doctor.
Following the woman’s continuous phone contact with him the doctor later contacted the Medical Defence Union to report the woman’s pestering.
The court had also heard that she lavished the doctor with gifts, including a tie, cufflinks and a bottle of port. Phone records showed she made regular calls to the doctor’s mobile phone.
According to the report, Giles worked in the 1980s as a model and beautician in the US.
She returned to Guyana in 1989 and met her British future husband at a diplomatic event.
They married in 1992 and settled in England in 1999.
