A RETIRED Bradford doctor has been warned he faces a "custodial sentence of some length" after being found guilty of six charges of indecent assault on a girl.

Ahmed Masood, 71, was convicted of sexually abusing a young girl 30 years ago, when she was aged between seven and ten.

The jury at Bradford Crown Court took three hours to reach its verdicts yesterday.

Judge Christopher Batty adjourned the case for a pre-sentence report to be completed but he warned Masood: "It will be a custodial sentence of some length."

Masood, of Lampards Close, Allerton, was also immediately placed on the sex offenders' register by the judge who granted him bail until the sentencing hearing at Leeds Crown Court on October 9.

During the trial, jury heard the abuse took place at Masood's home and also in staff quarters at Airedale General Hospital between 1982 and 1985.

His victim, now in her late 30s, said Masood, who has a son himself, first sexually assaulted her when she went to his house to feed the cats while his wife, who also worked as a doctor, was away in India.

After stopping off at the Morrisons supermarket in Girlington, Bradford, for pet food, Masood stopped by at another shop where he bought his girl victim sweets and rented a pornographic video.

She said he molested her on the sofa while they watched the video and then sexually abused her on a bed upstairs, after he had washed her with a jug of water.

Years later, Masood's victim realised he had also indecently assaulted her at the hospital after visiting the site with her mother and recalling the corridors, the jury had previously heard.

Masood, described as a "charming and charismatic" doctor, had come to the UK in 1973 after qualifying as a doctor in his native India.

His medical career saw him work for the Leeds Health Authority and then at Bradford Royal Infirmary. He also worked at Middleton Hospital, near Ilkley, between 1978 and 1983. That hospital has since been demolished.

He later set up a GP practice at Bertram Road, Manningham and at Whetley Hill Medical Centre, Saplin Street, Bradford.

He had no previous medical convictions and the General Medical Council said it had previously never received any complaint against him of a sexually inappropriate nature.

Masood, who was arrested in July last year, is said to have told the terrified child at the time that her parents would drop dead if she did not keep quiet about the abuse against her, the jury was told.