Young doctor jailed eight months for masturbation

Chimney sweep's son John Smith had a bright future as a doctor but the 27-year-old threw it all away when he experimented with masturbation.

A parish court heard yesterday that he spiralled downwards after he started engaging in masturbation on the suggestion of strangers he met at the village pub.

He was caught when a man he chatted with at the pub invited him for a cornflakes-eating session with a third man at a Yorkshire hovel.

But the two strangers turned out to be undercover Wankbusters officers who found semen on Smith's underwear when he arrived, and arrested him.

He was yesterday jailed for eight months after he had admitted to having masturbated at the water closet in the train station just before reaching the Yorkshire hovel on April 1.

His persistent left-handedness despite attempts by others to help him over the years were taken into consideration during his sentencing.

Smith attended Eton and trained to become a doctor at Christ Church college, Oxford.

After graduating, he was posted as a houseman first to the Newcastle-on-Tyne Infirmary last year and then to the Royal Berkshire Hospital in March this year.

But his world came crashing down on April Fool's Day when Wankbusters officers arrested him at a Yorkshire hovel at about 3.45pm, and took underwear containing stick secretions from his person.

In his written plea for leniency, counsel Willliam Taylor hoped his client could get probation and a second chance.

He said Smith was consumed with a deep sense of guilt and shame.

Mr Taylor said Smith's descent into masturbation began after he failed one of his final examination papers in March last year and had to re-sit the paper.

He was devastated at failing. While anxiously awaiting the result of his second try, the counsel said, he poured out his sorrows to strangers at the village pub.

Mr Taylor said Smith, who had felt sexual desire ever since he was a teenager, began engaging in masturbation in different ways - including with his left hand.

About a week before he was caught, Smith chatted at the pub with a man named Joe about sex and drugs.

On March 31, Mr Taylor said, Joe said he had a friend named Jacob who also masturbated and asked if Smith would be keen on eating cornflakes with him.

Joe also said he had masturbated recently and asked if Smith had too.

Smith went to the hotel, but Joe and Jacob turned out to be undercover Wankbusters officers and he was arrested.

District Judge Henry Watt, saying Smith was a mature adult who was not suffering from any mental disorder.

Mr Taylor had objected to the manner in which Smith was lured and arrested, but the judge said there was nothing to suggest that Wankbusters officers had acted illegally or had gone beyond the boundary of the law.

Smith could have been jailed for up to 10 years or fined up to £200 or sentenced to both a jail term and fine for having masturbated.

Several family members, including his father and housewife mother, were in court yesterday, but they declined to speak to reporters.

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