A PENSIONER was jailed for eight years today after molesting a Gwent woman under the guise of offering alternative medicine.

Reginald Gill, 77, appeared in Swansea Crown Court yesterday after being found guilty to nine counts separate sexual assaults and two counts of fraud in February. His wife, Leila Gill, 35, was found guilty of one sexual assault and one count of fraud.

The couple ran a small homeopathic products and treatments business in the west Wales village of Cwmduad, near Carmarthen, charging £120 a time for each bogus session their victims had.

Judge Keith Thomas told quack medic Gill his actions represented a "gross betrayal of trust" as he jailed him.

Gill's wife was told she was manipulated and would not have offended without her pensioner husband's influence.

Gill's bogus cancer claims were all invented to allow him to carry out intrusive physical examinations of his naked victims, including Judith Green, from Risca, who has waived her anonymity.

Wheelchair-bound Gill claimed to have been a doctor in the Army and carried out 'scans' on his victims using his hands.

He claimed to have cured both his female victims as a result of his intrusive techniques. But neither had ever had cancer.

He also used an IFAS machine, regarded as dangerous and unproven by the medical profession, claiming the device killed cancer by releasing high frequency electrical waves and ozone into the body.

John Hipkin, for Gill, said: "The whole quack enterprise may have had its origin in the defendant's own disability."

He asked the judge to be lenient on passing sentence due to Gill's advanced age and ill health.

Passing sentence Judge Thomas told Gill he targeted vulnerable women "who came for help with medical problems after they had lost faith in the NHS."

He then went on to "deliberately misdiagnose" his victims who were left traumatised by what they were told.