A jury in Napier District Court is expected to retire by late morning today to consider its verdicts in the trial of a Hastings doctor facing multiple charges of indecently assaulting male patients.
Following the end of the defence case of 41-year-old David Kang Huat Lim from Harry Waalkens QC and closing addresses from Crown prosecutor Steve Manning, only the summary by Judge Geoff Rea remains.
Lim, 41, denies five charges of stupefying and eight of indecent assault relating to allegations by four young men during the trial which started on May 22.
Lim is accused of stupefying patients during treatment at The Doctors in Hastings to facilitate the claimed indecencies at various times over a period of about eight months in 2014.
In his address, Mr Waalkens told the jury that hallucinations by the complainants, who each gave evidence during the trial, were entirely possible and they could have been dreaming.