{"id":20301,"date":"2025-07-25T04:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20301\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T04:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:54:08","slug":"nicholas-chapman-former-uk-doctor-who-put-his-own-semen-into-a-womans-coffee-struck-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20301\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Chapman: Former UK doctor who put his own semen into a woman\u2019s coffee struck off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A GP who put his own semen into a woman\u2019s coffee will never practice again after a tribunal struck him off the medical register over the disgusting act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">It is the latest humiliating punishment for the deviant doctor who, it was found, posed an ongoing risk to members of the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-3mk41m-StyledText eze0guv9\">Sign up to The Nightly&#8217;s newsletters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1r9pdr5-StyledSubText eze0guv8\">Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>By continuing you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/thenightly.com.au\/subscription-terms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevenwestmedia.com.au\/privacy-policies\/privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The case went to trial in 2023 and Nicholas Chapman, from Somerset in the UK, was sentenced to a 12 month community order after being found guilty of one count of attempting to engage in sexual activity without consent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">He was also issued with a 10-year restraining order preventing him from contacting the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">His sick actions were uncovered when his victim kept a sample of a drink he made for her after she became suspicious. She reported it to police and DNA tests confirmed a match with the doctor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The court was told that he had filled up \u201chundreds\u201d of specimen samples and was accused of adding them to his victim\u2019s drinks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The victim told the court that after having a sip of one coffee he made for her that she noticed a \u201csalty taste\u201d. When he made others for her she poured them out but saw a \u201cgloopy\u201d substance left in the sink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A year later when she found a collection of specimens belonging to Chapman, she took a sample of the next coffee he made for her to police, triggering his downfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Chapman had claimed in court that he would routinely ejaculate into the toilet due to a medical condition and that the fluid may have ended up in the drink after him not washing his hands. He also later suggested that someone else must have done it as a prank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">In a victim impact statement reported by the <a class=\"css-hwy1qg-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-somerset-66110697\">BBC<\/a> at the time, the woman said, \u201cI\u2019ve had to be open about this to my partner and family, but I often feel alone and that no one quite understands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI hope in the future I am able to put this all behind me and move on with my life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThough I have to accept that the mental and emotional trauma I have suffered throughout this will always remain with me in some way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Judge Rupert Lowe told Chapman: \u201cYou are an intelligent professional of previous good character with good references. However, people did not know what you did in private.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cYour defence at trial was absurd and unnecessary. Your claims were implausible and contradictory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cYou told the police a ridiculous story of having semen on your hand and admitted to masturbating at work. You then shifted your story about testing for a medical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThe truth is, you masturbated at work as you had a high sex drive. The impact on your career and personal life has been considerable. You have brought that on yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service reviewed Chapman\u2019s case between June 23 and July 8 this year, noting there had been \u201cno evidence of apology, reflection, insight or remediation from Dr Chapman in respect of his conviction\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">As well as the semen in the coffee, allegations about Chapman showing the victim photographs of an erect penis and unclothed women were found to be proved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Tribunal chair Jonathan Storey said ending Chapman\u2019s medical registration was the \u201cthe only sanction that would mark the seriousness of his misconduct and conviction\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cErasure would send a message to the medical profession and to the public that this type of behaviour was unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A GP who put his own semen into a woman\u2019s coffee will never practice again after a tribunal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,1720],"class_list":["post-20301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}