RELIEF showed on the face of a doctor yesterday after he was acquitted on charges of molesting his assistant in his clinic.

A district judge ruled that the prosecution had failed to prove its case against Dr Boon Seng Poh, 41. The doctor had been accused of touching his assistant's breast in October 2006, and then hugging her two weeks later in his Ubi Crescent clinic.

During the three-week trial that ended last month, both the 31-year-old assistant and the general practitioner testified.

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