Body reprimands female pharmacist

The tribunal said Ms Coventry was a skilled pharmacist

A pharmacist convicted of assaulting a woman who she had seen out "arm-in-arm" with her partner has been reprimanded by a disciplinary tribunal.

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society tribunal in London ruled that Sheila Coventry, of Edinburgh, posed "no risk" to the public.

The tribunal said she was "skilled as a pharmacist" but "less skilled in affairs of the heart."

Ms Coventry has already faced court proceedings over the incident.

She was sentenced to 120 hours of community service at Edinburgh Sheriff Court after being convicted of assaulting the woman in the city in 2004.

'Tempestuous love-life'

An earlier hearing had been told that the victim of the attack had gone to a hospital accident and emergency department with bruising to her head and hand and swelling above the eye.

Reprimanding Ms Coventry at the disciplinary hearing, tribunal chairman Lord Fraser of Carmyllie QC said: "She was outraged at seeing her partner, and father of her child, on the arm of another woman and overreacted."

He said that Ms Coventry was "skilled as a pharmacist, less skilled in affairs of the heart," and added: "There is no risk of repetition to the public."

Earlier in the hearing he had commented: "Although she's had a tempestuous love-life, she's a very good pharmacist."