GP, 55, is found guilty of sex offence after giving woman a cup of coffee containing his own semen 

A Somerset GP has been found guilty of a sex offense after depositing his own semen in a woman’s coffee.

The perverse Dr. Nicholas Chapman, 55, filled hundreds of ‘specimens’ samples and was accused of dropping them into his victim’s hot drinks several times over the course of a year.

After first drinking a ‘salty’ coffee, the victim told a trial that she always gave others away, but that she always saw a ‘thick, ruddy’ substance in the sink. Her suspicions were aroused a year later when she discovered a collection of Chapman’s “specimen jars.”

The victim then took a sample of the next coffee he made for her to the police and it tested positive for the defendant’s semen.

Chapman was also questioned in court about his professionalism after two colleagues said they saw pictures of his erect penis on his phone. The disgraced GP claimed this was ‘accidental’ and said he was ‘mortified’.

Chapman, from Taunton, Somerset, was found guilty today of one count of unauthorized sexual activity for causing the victim to ‘swallow his semen’ on September 13, 2021.

The Gloucester Crown Court jury found him not guilty of the second charge of the same charge, alleged to have been committed between September 12, 2020 and September 12, 2021.

This was the period when the victim “thought” something was wrong with the coffee he was making for her, but no official investigation had been conducted.

Chapman had tried to claim that he collected the samples at work because of a “secret” condition where he discharged semen every time he defecated and that someone else had put it in the coffee as a “joke”.

As evidence, the victim said she first disclosed something was wrong with the coffee she brewed in September 2020 when it tasted “salty” and then saw a “thick, bulging substance in the drink.”

She added, “I didn’t know what it was. I didn’t suspect at the time that it could be sperm.

“He then brought me more drinks — probably one to three cups of coffee a week.

‘Since that occasion I have thrown them down the sink – given the type of substance in the sink – it was a different size and amount each time.

“I’ve seen it at least six times—I haven’t had it since that first time.”

In September 2021, the victim said she discovered multiple specimen containers in Chapman’s possession which aroused her suspicion.

She added: “I immediately suspected he had put semen in it and transported it into my drink.

“I was in shock at the time. I saw in this pocket what looked like one of those bottles.’

She said he then offered to make her another cup of coffee and she said, “I immediately felt sick and was shaking that he had put something in it.”

The victim said she then went to the sink to throw it out and said, “It was gloopy.”

Then she put some in her own specimen pots.

She added: “I felt very nervous and scared that he would catch me with this cup.

“I put the cup in a bag and handed over the sample (to the police).”

She added: “I remember the first time I saw things in the sink – he said, did you notice anything in your drink? I noticed something in mine he said.

“Maybe that was the first time he did it and he wanted to know if I had noticed.

“It tasted salty.”

The victim also described the defendant as “letchy” and said he showed her pictures on his phone of his “stiff penis” at least twice.

She said: ‘I thought (the first time) it was a mistake and he should be really ashamed.

“The second time, I felt like it was on purpose. I felt very uncomfortable about it.’

‘It wasn’t until I saw the jars that I suspected the sperm was in my drink.

“Sometimes I refused coffee, but he did it anyway.”

The GP was arrested when he showed up for work and suspended from his post at a health center in Somerset when the allegations came to light.

Chapman gave evidence at trial, admitting that he would masturbate at work, but that it was “not for pleasure,” saying the reason for finding semen in the coffee was a “prank gone horribly wrong.”

He said, “I don’t know why anyone did that to my monster – I don’t know why anyone did it or why.”

He claimed he collected samples to test for a condition he claims to have suffered since he was 16 years old, in which he involuntarily released semen while defecating.

There was nothing about this in his medical file, he told the court, saying he had “kept it a secret” over the years.

He told the jury that he had been collecting the samples “almost daily” while defecating at work since 2013.

He acknowledged that there were at least 10 to 12 “collections” a month and 140 collections a year that he didn’t throw down the toilet.

Chapman also described masturbation – including at work – as “nothing to do with pleasure – but a painful necessity.”

When asked why he didn’t seek help for his problem or why it wasn’t in his medical file, the GP told the court: ‘GPs are often very bad at fending for themselves.’

Chapman also admitted to the jury that he was known for playing pranks. He explained that he had a box of jokes that he often used and revealed that he put a counterfeit parking ticket on the same woman’s car.

Chapman said he had been the recipient of many practical jokes in the past. “I once found a thumbtack in a plastic thimble that I use when finishing paperwork,” he said.

Asked by his lawyer Virginia Cornwall if he put his ejaculate in the cup, even as a joke, he said, “No, I didn’t put anything in the woman’s coffee.” I had no sexual interest in her.’

Chapman added, “When I tried to put the information together, the only scenario that seems logical to me is that it was a prank played by someone, not me, that went wrong.”

Analysis of the coffee brewed on September 13, 2021 yielded semen and DNA for a match with the defendant, for which he was found guilty.

Described as a respected and accomplished physician, Chapman was born in South Africa where he graduated as a physician from the University of Cape Town in 1993.

Following the verdict, Chapman’s sentencing was postponed to July 6 and he was released on conditional bail.

Judge Rupert Lowe described it as a very ‘unusual case’ and added: ‘I have not yet decided on the sentence and am not in a position to give any indication of what that might be.’