The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7448 p446
21 April 2007

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Pharmacist pleads guilty to Society staff assault

Pharmacist Samuel Edwin Ashby faces a possible jail sentence after pleading guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm on being told that he was to be struck off the Register of Pharmaceutical Chemists.

Mr Ashby hit the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s interim head of professional conduct, Desmond Fitzpatrick, over the head with a 10-inch iron bar during a Statutory Committee hearing on 25 October 2006 (PJ, 28 October 2006, p503 and 9 December 2006, p718).

Sentencing was adjourned until 18 June, pending the preparation of probation and psychiatric reports.

Mr Ashby has appealed against being struck off and remains registered pending the outcome of his appeal.