A SLEAZY eye doctor dropped a lens into a woman's lap and told her: "There couldn't be a better place for it to fall".

Sufyan Malik, an optometrist in Slough, Berkshire, was banned for the profession after acting inappropriately with patients.

Malik told the woman, whose son was in the eye examination room, he was "thinking inappropriate thoughts".

He whispered: "If only he had been left outside - my mind is wandering now," before groping her leg and staring at her breasts.

The General Optical Council, sitting in London, found Malik guilty of sexually motivated behaviour.

The panel heard that he dropped a spectacle lens into her lap and retrieved it, saying: "There couldn't have been a better place for it to drop - well, maybe."

The hearing was also told how Malik obtained another woman's phone number from her private medical records, before inappropriately texting her.

Malik insisted his conduct was simply "banter"

Panel chair Pamela Ormerod said: "His actions were repeated incidents of sexually motivated conduct towards two separate women, made within a short time of each other.

"In one case, a child was present. Each woman appeared to have suffered at least some degree of emotional and psychological damage."