A doctor's career is in ruins after he was convicted of a sexual assault on a sleeping woman on a train.

Natarajan Nandakumar, from Canterbury, faces disciplinary proceedings by the General Medical Council and could be forced to return to India.

The 36-year-old senior eye consultant at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford was convicted by a 10-2 jury majority at Maidstone Crown Court.

Nandakumar was fined £3,000 and ordered to pay almost £2,000 costs.

A judge - who described the attack as "thoroughly nasty" - refused to order compensation for the woman from Tonbridge in case it gave the wrong impression.

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