Conviction of Glasgow doctor jailed for raping woman upheld

A doctor serving time for raping a teenager and sexually assaulting another woman has failed in a bid to have his conviction quashed.

45 year-old Khalid Jamal was given a six year stretch in June 2018 after a jury heard how he met his victims on a dating website.

The High Court in Glasgow heard how medic took the women to his home where he invited them to look at his pet fish in his bedroom.

His first victim, now aged 27, had been out with Jamal on a number of occasions when he attacked her at his flat in Great Western Road, Glasgow, after she refused to have him sex with him on Christmas Eve 2013.

Jamal raped his second victim, then aged 19, at his "cabin" in Balloch, Dunbartonshire, between April and May 2016.

Judge Johanna Johnston QC also placed Jamal on the Sex Offenders Register.

On Thursday, Jamal's lawyers went to the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh to argue that he had fallen victim to a miscarriage of justice.

Advocate Clare Connelly told judges Lord Carloway, Lord Turnbull and Lord Menzies that there wasn't enough evidence available which would have allowed the jury to convict Jamal.

Prosecutor Jo McDonald said there were enough similarities in the attacks which would allow the jury to conclude Jamal was guilty of wrong doing.

The appeal judges agreed with the Crown.

Lord Carloway said: "This appeal will be refused."