{"id":299032,"date":"2025-07-28T17:33:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299032\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T17:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:33:45","slug":"taunton-gp-struck-off-over-semen-in-womans-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299032\/","title":{"rendered":"Taunton GP struck off over semen in woman&#8217;s coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The conduct of Dr Nicholas Chapman was heard at a tribunal held by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) between\u00a0June 23 and\u00a0July 8 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The tribunal examined\u00a0allegations\u00a0that Dr Chapman had, on one or more occasions between 2016 and 2021, engaged in a course of conduct against Ms A &#8211; \u201cthat constituted sexual harassment, was sexually motivated and was an abuse of his senior position.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Read More:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk\/news\/23638537.semen-in-coffee-taunton-area-gp-nicholas-chapman-sentenced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Semen-in-coffee Taunton area GP Nicholas Chapman sentenced<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk\/news\/23592805.dr-nick-chapman-guilty-lacing-womans-coffee-semen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Nick Chapman guilty of lacing woman&#8217;s coffee with semen<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The tribunal also examined how, in 2021, Dr Chapman had given Ms B a cup of coffee that contained semen matching his DNA profile, for which he was\u00a0convicted of attempting to cause a person to engage in sexual activity without consent in June 2023\u00a0\u2014 resulting in a\u00a012-month\u00a0community order, a 10-year restraining order, and being\u00a0ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for a period of 5 years.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Tribunal\u00a0received \u201cno evidence of apology, reflection, insight or remediation from Dr Chapman in respect of his conviction.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Referencing the conduct against Ms A, the tribunal\u00a0&#8220;found\u00a0proved&#8221; that Dr Chapman had shown the victim photographs of an\u00a0erect penis. It was also determined and &#8220;found proved&#8221; that he had shown her images of &#8220;unclothed women and\/or that were pornographic in nature&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was determined and found proved by the tribunal that\u00a0Dr Chapman had asked Ms A if she had found him on a dating app, asked her why she had not found him on the dating app, and suggested she should &#8216;look for\u00a0[him]&#8217;\u00a0on the dating app.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In approximately\u00a02020,\u00a0Dr Chapman\u00a0kissed Ms A on the lips, the tribunal determined and &#8220;found proved&#8221;. Then in May 2021,\u00a0Dr Chapman hugged Ms A and touched Ms A&#8217;s bottom, the tribunal\u00a0determined and &#8220;found proved&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  MPTS Chair, Mr Jonathan Storey, concluded that the erasure of Dr Chapman from the medical register \u201cwas the only sanction that would mark the seriousness of his misconduct and conviction.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Storey added: \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":"The conduct of Dr Nicholas Chapman was heard at a tribunal held by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-299032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114932062782147993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}