The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7424 p503
28 October 2006

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Pharmacist attacks Society employee with metal bar at Statutory Committee hearing

A Statutory Committee hearing was disrupted this week when a pharmacist, who was appearing before the committee for misconduct, attacked a Royal Pharmaceutical Society employee.

Samuel Edwin Ashby, who lives in Grantham, Lincolnshire, had just learnt that he was to be struck off the Register when he hit the member of staff from the fitness to practise and legal affairs directorate with what appeared to be an iron bar. Mr Ashby then wrestled with a journalist who intervened. The attacker was disarmed by members of the committee and arrested by the police.

The employee was taken to hospital for assessment and the Council chamber was sealed pending forensic examination.