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Maeve Bannister

Dentist avoids jail for sexually touching patients

Bassem Magdy El-Badrawy Fouad has been spared jail after he indecently assaulted five patients. (Steve Markham/AAP PHOTOS)

A Sydney dentist convicted of sexually touching his female patients has been spared time behind bars after a judge declared he would face a tough time in jail due to an "unrelenting itch" in his lower body.

Bassem Magdy El-Badrawy Fouad, 55, was sentenced on Friday after a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting multiple patients during consultations following a trial in March.

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