A PERVERTED prankster who called himself Doctor Michael told women and children they had cancer so he could listen to them perform intimate tests on themselves.

Depraved Davinder Kelly, of Pinewood Avenue, Hillingdon, telephoned the women, who all had cancer or had been tested for the disease, and told them they had a short time to live.

The 45-year-old then made the women touch themselves in the medical tests' while he listened to them breathing down the phone.

Isleworth Crown Court heard Kelly got details about the women by visiting his wife at work at Central Middlesex Hospital and helping' her with her filing.

At the hospital he accessed files from both the Central Middlesex and Northwick Park hospitals, covering a large number of patients from across West London.

Kelly would then phone the women pretending to be Doctor Michael of Westminster Hospital' - and if one of their children answered he treated that as an "unexpected bonus".

Prosecutor Constance Briscoe said: "The defendant pretended to be a doctor and persuaded a number of adults and children to participate in various sexual acts on themselves and sometimes each other.

"He explained to each of his victims that he was trying to detect cancer."

The alleged abuse was discovered when people from across four separate boroughs contacted their doctors, and in January 2004 Dr Sunil Shah from Ealing Primary Health Trust called in the police.

Ms Briscoe said: "Dr Shah informed officers that a significant number of patients in the boroughs of Ealing, Hounslow, Hillingdon and Harrow had reported calls from a man pretending to be a doctor or health official.

"Most of the calls made reference to either breast or cervical screening programmes and health trusts were becoming increasingly concerned as the caller told many of the victims they may have cancer and in some cases he appeared to have private information relating to the victims."

Police traced the calls to a mobile phone which led them to Davinder Kelly. Both he and his wife, Kiranjoth, were arrested but she was later released without charge.

Kelly agreed it was his mobile phone but told officers the phone had been stolen more than once and he thought the SIM card had been copied.

He said that when his wife had to work on a Saturday he would sometimes go along "to help out" but he denied copying or removing any medical records.

But a jury at Isleworth Crown Court today convicted the sex fiend of two counts of causing children to engage in sexual activity, one charge of causing an adult to engage in sexual activity and a charge of being a public nuisance by making malicious, threatening and obscene telephone calls between October 2003 and May 2004.

Remanding Kelly in custody until his sentencing in March, Judge Richard McGregor-Johnson said: "I am extremely concerned by the behaviour revealed in this case and a substantial custodial sentence is in my mind.

"I find it extremely disturbing. He was telephoning people, pretending to be a doctor, telling them they or a member of their family had cancer and using that as a pretext to get them to engage in sexual activity."

After the verdicts Detective Sergeant Lilian Key said "This has been a three-year investigation which has meant that several victims have had this in the forefront of their minds for a long time.

"I hope these verdicts will go some way towards helping them reach a form of closure".