More complaints have been made against the jailed GP for indecent assault

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BBC Stephen Cox, wearing a button-up shirt and tie, walks out of Reading Crown Court, the bars of the fence in front of him as he walks down a ramp outside the building. He wears glasses, has short, white hair and a white beard.BBC

Stephen Cox was previously suspended for misconduct while working in West Sussex

Further complaints have been made against a retired GP who was jailed last month for indecently assaulting women during routine medical examinations.

Stephen Cox, 65, was sentenced to 22 years for twelve assaults on patients while working at a practice in Bracknell, Berkshire, between 1988 and 1997.

A spokesperson for Thames Valley Police said police are investigating “a number” of cases but the investigation is still at an early stage.

Cox previously worked at other practices in Wokingham, Burton-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Derby, Leicestershire, Telford and West Sussex.

Reading Crown Court heard Cox was “motivated by sexual pleasure” when he attacked the women at the former Ralphs Ride Practice, now the Waterfield Practice.

He also performed internal examinations on some of the women when this was not necessary or without using gloves.

A general view of the Waterfield Practice in Bracknell, a two-storey building with a sign "The Waterveld Practice" and two cars parked in the parking lot.

Cox was working at the former Ralphs Ride practice in Bracknell when he assaulted the women

Judge Sarah Campbell told Cox at his sentencing that he was the “worst kind of sexual predator”, who attacked seven vulnerable women who he thought would be less likely to complain.

Cox, from near Welshpool, was acquitted of a further four charges involving one of the victims on October 4 after a month-long trial.

The judge said the way the victims did not report Cox immediately after the assaults “will have struck a chord with many women.”

Cox, who had retired before his recent trial, was suspended from practicing medicine for nine months in October 2010.

Regulators found he had acted inappropriately and in a ‘sexually motivated’ manner with two patients and a trainee while working at a practice in Handcross, West Sussex.

Examples included placing a hand inside a patient’s bra during an examination, pushing or bumping his body against a woman’s buttocks, and deliberately touching and/or rubbing the medical student’s leg and arm.

At the time the hearing was said to have been “devastated when the complainants came forward”.

But a panel ruled that Cox failed to demonstrate his “ability to empathize with the perspectives of the women involved”.