The matchday doctor at the centre of the ‘Bloodgate’ fake rugby injury scandal has been told she can practise medicine again.
Dr Wendy Chapman cut the lip of Harlequins player Tom Williams to cover up a bogus blood injury during the Heineken Cup quarter-final against Leinster and later lied about her role in the event.
A General Medical Council (GMC) disciplinary panel ruled Dr Chapman's fitness to practise was not impaired despite her actions, which it said were not in the best interests of her patient.
She was suspended by the GMC last September and could have been struck off at the hearing in Manchester.
