Bloodgate stain has tainted my career forever, says Chapman

THE doctor at the centre of the Bloodgate controversy has admitted she may find it difficult to return to medicine, as her name would forever be associated with her part in the scandal.

Dr Wendy Chapman cut the lip of Harlequins wing Tom Williams to cover up a bogus blood injury, allowing specialist goal kicker Nick Evans come off the bench in the dying minutes of last April’s Heineken Cup quarter-final tie against Leinster, who held on to win 6-5.

Appearing before the UK General Medical Council, Dr Chapman said that before Bloodgate she had been hoping to take a fuller role at the club and was in line to work in somecapacity at the London 2012 Olympic Games.