Dr Wendy Gray

Dr Gray qualified in 1982 from the University of Otago in New Zealand with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. Her hospital experience includes rotations in medical and surgical specialties, and two years in pathology. She has also worked in general practice, medical publishing, and international research and development in the pharmaceutical industry. She gained a diploma from the Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1997, and a Diploma in Forensic Medical Sciences (which included a dissertation on the quality of forensic evidence) from The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 2008. In 2008, she was granted Membership of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. She was a Sexual Offence Examiner for the Metropolitan Police Service from 1995 to 2019, and a general Forensic Medical Examiner (in police custody) from 2004 to 2024. More recently, since March 2024, Dr Gray has taken up a full-time role as a Sexual Offence Examiner at the Havens Sexual Assault Referral Centre, London.

Since 1995, Dr Gray has specialised in clinical forensic medicine, with a main interest in sexual offence medicine. She has completed over 2000 forensic examinations in cases of alleged sexual assault and suspected child sexual abuse. Dr Gray is experienced in examination for injury and interpretation (causation) of examination findings, in both complainants and suspects of crime. She is experienced in the evaluation of colposcopic recordings of anogenital examinations. She is knowledgeable about forensic samples, alcohol and drugs, genitourinary and psychosexual medicine.

Dr Gray’s interests include injuries sustained during consensual and non-consensual sexual activity and variations in anogenital anatomy (which may be mistaken for signs of abuse). Dr Gray is pro-active in maintaining extensive, up-to-date knowledge of medical literature on sexual assault, child sexual abuse, and inflicted (non-accidental) injury. She has published a letter to the BMJ on the use of colposcopy and a paper in the JRSM on testing of hair samples for drugs in children. Dr Gray is a member of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine (FFLM) research subcommittee, which is currently conducting a systematic review of the diagnostic accuracy of specific anogenital examination findings as indicators of sexual abuse in children and adolescents with suspected sexual abuse.

Dr Gray has received specialist training and regularly attends educational meetings including peer review of colposcopic recordings of anogenital examination findings and images of body injuries.

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