Doctor convicted of harassing GP ex-husband for almost three years

A doctor has been convicted of harassing her GP ex-husband for almost three years.

Roisin Hamilton, 46, targeted the 47-year-old at his home in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, between January 2021 and November 2023.

Haematologist Hamilton was found guilty on Friday at Glasgow Sheriff Court of her latest offence of engaging in a course of behaviour which was abusive of her partner or ex-partner.

The court heard that the pair separated in 2016 after eight years of marriage.

Hamilton’s husband, a GP with 20 years’ experience, recalled in his evidence a string of messages which were sent to him by his ex-wife.

In one message, Hamilton told her former partner: “I’m coming for what’s mine. I told you not to mess with me again.”

Hamilton also referred to the GP, who has his own practice in the city’s west end, as “Doctor D***.”

The witness then stated: “She was saying she told the General Medical Council that I was an abusive control freak and that I have no idea what’s coming.”

Another message read: “If I’m going down, you are now coming with me.” A later text said: “Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide now.”

Hamilton was further seen to abuse her ex-husband’s new partner, calling her a “fat ugly cow.”

In another text on Valentine’s Day, Hamilton asked him if his current partner received 12 red roses.

The next day, Hamilton sent: “Night night sweetheart.”

The GP created a dossier of evidence, which he later handed to the police, and an investigation took place.

David McCaig, defending, asked the witness if he had called his client a “nasty name” and he replied: “I didn’t.”

Mr McCaig asked: “A psycho?”

He responded: “I wouldn’t use a word like that as I look after people with mental health problems.”

Mr McCaig, in his closing submission, argued whether the doctor suffered psychological harm as a result of the messages due to his two-decade experience in his role.

However, Sheriff Paul Reid told Hamilton: “Things are said and done which later on when the dust has settled you will no doubt regret.

“I found your ex-husband to be credible and reliable and I thought that he did not want to give evidence and when he did so it was in a measured fashion.

“He spoke of multiple messages that went well below the belt, and he wanted you to stop, and you didn’t, then you crossed the line.”

Sentence was deferred for good behaviour for six months, and Hamilton, of Banbridge, County Down, was granted bail.

Hamilton had stopped practising in 2015 after attacking a police officer while drunk outside of a hospital.

Hamilton was arrested again the following year when she threw a cup of coffee at a member of staff at Glasgow Airport.

In 2018, she was arrested in her native Northern Ireland for being drunk and disorderly.

This led to her initial suspension from the General Medical Council, which was later overturned.

Hamilton received another suspension after she attacked paramedics in 2020, as well as a drink-driving conviction in 2021.