Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge has paid out compensation of more than £600,000 after the conviction of Suffolk-based consultant paediatrician Dr Myles Bradbury for child sex offences, it has emerged.
Myles Bradbury, who lived at Herringswell near Bury St Edmunds, was jailed for 22 years after carrying out medical examinations on boys “purely for his own sexual gratification” while working at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
The paediatric consultant haematologist filmed some of his victims – aged between 10 and 16 – using a spy pen and abused others behind a curtain while their parents were in the room.
According to a freedom of information request published by the BBC, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has paid out £611,750 in compensation to victims and their families.
The BBC said the figures relate to 15 cases out of the 31 claims the trust received.
Bradbury pleaded guilty to 25 offences involving 18 victims, including sexual assault, voyeurism and possessing more than 16,000 indecent images.
He was jailed at Cambridge Crown Court in December 2014. He was also put on the sex offenders’ register for the rest of his life
It was reported that individual compensation claims range between £17,000 and £25,000.
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