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Trainee Surgeon Charged With 127 Additional Offences Over Alleged Hospital Bathroom Recordings

Detectives are expanding victim notifications across other facilities where the doctor worked between 2020 and 2025.

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Overview

  • Victoria Police added 127 counts to earlier charges, alleging stalking, producing intimate images and installing optical surveillance devices.
  • Investigators say a mobile phone was used to record staff in toilets at the Austin Hospital, the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
  • Forensic analysis reported about 4,500 intimate videos and folders naming at least 406 female victims, including doctors, nurses and paramedics.
  • The Mernda Sexual Offence and Child Abuse Investigation Team continues to examine other workplaces from 2020 to 2025 and expects to identify more alleged victims.
  • The accused remains on remand after an earlier bail refusal, has been suspended from practice, and appeared in the Supreme Court on Friday to seek bail with a ruling due later in the day.