The charges against Berrimah Family Practice doctor Mohamed Jamaldeen Hassian Ali have all been dropped during his Supreme Court trial, the media reported.

On Friday, September 1, prosecutor Steve Ledek announced the Crown was withdrawing all charges, the four counts of gross indecency and one count of rape, the NT News reported.

It was the fourth day of the 73-year-old Darwin doctor’s trial where the prosecution had alleged that during lactation consultations the doctor “suckled” on a 40-year-old patient’s breasts and took a vaginal swab.

Dr Ali’s barrister Mary Chalmers SC was reported as saying the doctor did not dispute he took the swab that was “sent it off to the lab in the ordinary course of business”.

She had previously said the complainant was “not an honest or reliable witness”.

“There was no sexual assault of any description during any of those four medical appointments,” she told the jury.

Late on the Friday, in the middle of the cross-examination of the complainant during a closed court hearing, prosecutors filed a ‘nolle prosequi’ notice, meaning they would not prosecute the case any further, the NT News reported.

Justice Judith Kelly dismissed the jury, and thanks the legal parties.

“Please don’t think that your time has been wasted sitting on this jury,” Justice Kelly was quoted as saying.

“It was necessary for matters to proceed the way that they did, and the prosecution has now come to that determination.

“I do congratulate the parties in discussing the matter and reached, what I consider to be an eminently sensible resolution.”