A JUDGE hardly minced his words when he sentenced a man known as Peter the Doc.

The words ‘charlatan’ and ‘unscrupulous liar’ reverberated around Hampshire Assizes over his abuse of a pregnant teenager.

Joseph Burczyk, 37, was convicted of causing noxious substances – pills and liquid drugs – to be taken by the 17-year-old with intent to procure a miscarriage and supplying them, knowing they were intended to be used unlawfully.

Jurors heard how a youth, responsible for getting the girl pregnant, introduced both sets of parents to Burczyk who had passed himself off as a doctor.

He proceeded to examine her before supplying her with the drugs and pills. He eventually took the girl to an expert gynaecologist, saying she was his sister.

Transferred Det Insp Robert Masters told Mr Justice Hilbery at the 1956 hearing that Burczyk had served with the Polish Army during the war before being captured and transferred to Russia.

Moving to Britain, he joined a firm of architects where he was involved in “unsatisfactory transactions” of clients’ money. He was later jailed for false pretences.

Terry Read, defending, said one thing was abundantly clear – no harm had befallen the girl.

But the judge snapped: “I wonder what the effects of this drastic treatment of the girl during her pregnancy has had on the unborn child.”

The judge then turned to Burczyk: “All that has happened in this case is that you have proved yourself to be an unscrupulous liar and not a very clever liar at that.

“The law saw you for the liar that you are.”

Jailing him for 18 months, the judge added: “I do not know how we keep men like you in this country among us – an expense to the citizens of this country and a danger among them because you are an unscrupulous man.”