Mercy for drunken GP in stilettos who stamped on officer
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Dr Eve Speight, 54, had been drinking in a village pub when she and her husband had a row.
Police were called but as they moved in to arrest her she launched into a foulmouthed rant at the two constables.
She screamed: “Why the **** have I been arrested? Is this how you treat people here? I’ve done nothing wrong. I’m a ******* GP don’t you know?”
Bob Sastry, for the General Medical Council, had told a disciplinary hearing that Speight, of Soulbury, Buckinghamshire, had been “abusive and emotional” during the confrontation with the police.
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The bust-up happened in June 2015 hours after Speight had been bailed following another drunken row in which she raged at a neighbour during a child’s third birthday party.
The GP, originally from Vienna, was incensed by a barking dog and threatened to castrate the neighbour, called him a “gay pussy” and said she would kill his dog before spitting in his face.
Speight pleaded guilty to six public order charges including assault and threatening behaviour at Aylesbury magistrates court in August 2015 and was given a 12-month community order.
She has admitted misconduct charges at a Medical Practitioners’ Tribunal in Manchester but claimed the incidents occurred in her “private life” and had no bearing on her work.
She told the panel: “Doctors should be able to let off steam.”
Panel chairman Lucy Reid told her last Friday: “Your behaviour was outrageous and unbefitting of a member of the medical profession.”
But Mrs Reid told Speight that striking her off the medical register would be “disproportionate” as there had been no further incidents involving police since the 2015 incidents.
Speight told the tribunal that she no longer wished to practise as a GP.