A South African doctor who was practising in the United Kingdom has been struck off the medical register “with immediate effect” after putting his semen in a woman’s coffee, reports The Mirror.
Nicholas Chapman (57), who had studied at the University of Cape Town and carried out his dirty deeds in Somerset, England, had previously been sentenced to a community order for a sexual crime after a trial revealed that he had loaded hundreds of “specimen” semen samples before putting them into his victim’s drinks.
The victim had described sipping a salty coffee and throwing it into the sink, only to see a “thick gloopy” material as she poured it out.
“I did not know what it was,” she had told The Mirror. “I did not suspect it could have been semen …he was bringing me probably one to three cups of coffee a week.”
She said a year later, she became suspicious again after coming across Chapman’s foul collection of “specimen pots”.
“I then suspected he had been putting semen in them and pouring them into my drinks. … I noticed in this trouser pocket what looked like one of those bottles.”
The former doctor had attempted to claim that the collection of samples was due to a “secret” condition that saw him discharge semen during defecation.
Although he acknowledged there were at least 10-12 “collections” a month and 140 collections a year that were not flushed down the toilet, he insisted that his masturbation, including at work, had “nothing to do with pleasure – but was a painful necessity”.
Alleging that another person must have put the samples in the coffee as a “prank that went horribly wrong”, Chapman argued: “I don’t know why someone did that with my sample.”
When quizzed on why he did not seek help for his issue or why there was no note of this on his medical records, Chapman told the court: “GPs are often really bad at managing themselves.”
However, this defence was dismissed as “absurd”.
He had been sentenced at Gloucester Crown Court in 2023 after being found guilty of one count of sexual conduct without permission and suspended from his job at the Somerset-based health institution after the claims surfaced.
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