A JAILED drug dealer is claiming £30,000 damages for a bizarre internal examination - using porridge as a lubricant.
Former prison doctor Alexander McFarlane admits he used milk from an old bowl of porridge when he examined Colin Hancock in Perth Prison.
But he denies Hancock's claim the porridge was also covered in cigarette ash.
Dr McFarlane was called to see Hancock - serving a four-year sentence for cannabis possession with intent to supply - when he claimed he could not pass urine.
He says he asked permission to carry out a rectal examination.
But Hancock denies that and says the incident brought back buried memories of childhood sex abuse and left him feeling suicidal.
Dr McFarlane, who has left the prison service, said: 'He said he was unable to pass urine.
'You can check the back of the bladder which is next door to the rectum. He gave me permission.
'I said we needed lubricant which we didn't have. I used some milk from the porridge.
'He claimed the thing was adulterated with cigarettes, but if it had been I would not have used it.
'I said to him if you are prepared to eat it in your mouth then it would be OK to apply it to the bottom end and he agreed. ' Hancock, from Southampton, denied he had given permission.
He said: 'I was having trouble urinating and I was expecting him to feel my kidneys.
'Without any warning, I just felt his finger going into my backside. Something happened in my past and, for well over 20 years, I had been able to put it out of my mind. It all came flooding back.'
Hancock's case will be called at Perth Sheriff Court in December.
The incident in 1996 was reported to the British Medical Association but no action has been taken against Dr McFarlane.
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Former prison doctor Alexander McFarlane admits he used milk from an old bowl of porridge when he examined Colin Hancock in Perth Prison.
But he denies Hancock's claim the porridge was also covered in cigarette ash.
Dr McFarlane was called to see Hancock - serving a four-year sentence for cannabis possession with intent to supply - when he claimed he could not pass urine.
He says he asked permission to carry out a rectal examination.
But Hancock denies that and says the incident brought back buried memories of childhood sex abuse and left him feeling suicidal.
Dr McFarlane, who has left the prison service, said: 'He said he was unable to pass urine.
'You can check the back of the bladder which is next door to the rectum. He gave me permission.
'I said we needed lubricant which we didn't have. I used some milk from the porridge.
'He claimed the thing was adulterated with cigarettes, but if it had been I would not have used it.
'I said to him if you are prepared to eat it in your mouth then it would be OK to apply it to the bottom end and he agreed. ' Hancock, from Southampton, denied he had given permission.
He said: 'I was having trouble urinating and I was expecting him to feel my kidneys.
'Without any warning, I just felt his finger going into my backside. Something happened in my past and, for well over 20 years, I had been able to put it out of my mind. It all came flooding back.'
Hancock's case will be called at Perth Sheriff Court in December.
The incident in 1996 was reported to the British Medical Association but no action has been taken against Dr McFarlane.
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