A Keighley doctor thrashed a teenage girl's bare buttocks with a metal coathanger, a Court heard on Tuesday.

The girl was so upset that she later tried to commit suicide in the shop where she worked, the High Court in Glasgow was told.

After being rushed to the city's Western Infirmary for emergency treatment, the girl complained to a nurse that she had been raped by psychiatrist Dr Darren Holdsworth at his flat.

Holdsworth, 35, who worked with vulnerable patients in a drugs and drink rehabilitation clinic in the city's Stobhill Hospital, was charged with raping the girl.

But on Tuesday he admitted a reduced charge of indecent assault when the Crown dropped the rape allegation.

He admitted a charge that on November 8 and 9 last year, at his flat in Glasgow, he assaulted the girl by repeatedly striking her on the body with a metal coathanger, and rubbing oil on her body.

Parts of the charge alleging he restrained her on a bed, took indecent photographs of her and raped her were deleted by the Crown.

Holdsworth also admitted to a charge of possessing a small amount of cannabis for his own use, discovered by police on January 17 this year when they visited his flat on another, unrelated matter.

A plea of not guilty to half-strangling the girl with his hands at his parents' home in Keighley, on November 8 last year was also accepted by the Crown.

A charge that he grossly sexually assaulted another woman and thrashed her with a spatula over a two-month period, at his flat in Glasgow, was also dropped by the Crown.

Advocate deputy Derek Batchelor, prosecuting, said that Holdsworth had a previous conviction for assault at Bradford in l994, when he was placed on probation for two years.

Holdsworth, a single man, qualified from Glasgow University in l999 as a doctor and registered with the General Medical Council. He worked in both the city's Royal Infirmary and Garnavel Hospital before going to Stobhill Hospital in November 2001.

Mr Batchelor said the 19-year-old victim, who lived with her parents, had attended a clinic when she was aged 14-16 for anorexia.

She continued to have an eating disorder and had low self-esteem and was scared of violence.

The girl, who worked in a second-hand clothes shop, was having a meal with her parents in a restaurant off Byres Road, Hillhead, Glasgow, in October 2001, when the accused and a male friend sat at a table opposite and began staring at her.

Holdsworth slipped the girl a note, whispering to her to pick it up.

The note - which she looked at later - read: "I want to hear from you when your thoughts are not filtered for your parents. My name is Darren."

It gave his phone number. The girl phoned and Holdsworth asked for a date. Later he said he could not go out, but asked her to go to his flat to see photographs.

The girl told her mum she was going out with a friend, but went to Holdsworth's flat instead.

Mr Batchelor told the court: "Consensual intercourse took place. It was the first time for the girl. She later told her mother she had sex with the accused and her mother was upset."

The girl later stayed with Holdsworth after saying she had nowhere to stay.

Said Mr Batchelor: "The accused knew of her anorexia. On returning from a trip to England they went out for a drink. The girl did not normally drink and got quite drunk.

"She went to bed in the accused's flat and the assault took place.

"She awoke when the accused pulled back the covers and pulled down her tracksuit bottoms and struck her with a metal coathanger about 20 times.

"Photographs taken later showed the injuries and a doctor asked to examine her said they must have been made by a reasonable degree of force.

Mr Batchelor said: "She decided to take her own life when he told her to return to her parents.

"She took tablets and vodka at her workplace and was rushed to hospital after she collapsed."

After having her stomach pumped and being given other treatment the girl told a psychiatric nurse what Holdsworth had done to her and the police were alerted.

When interviewed by police, Holdsworth admitted striking the girl with the coathanger without asking her consent.

Judge Lord McEwan called for background reports on Holdsworth and deferred sentence to the High Court in Edinburgh on November 21.

He ordered Holdsworth's name to be placed on the Sex Offenders' Register.

Holdsworth's victim was in court to hear the proceedings, and sat at the back accompanied by a plain-clothes policeman.