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A pharmacist who was convicted of stalking a junior colleague with whom he had had a relationship has been suspended for six months by the GPhC. 

Baljinder Singh Gill, who ran a prison pharmacy in East Riding, pleaded guilty to stalking without fear of violence at Hull Magistrates Court in September 2024 and was given a 10-year restraining order that prevents him from entering his victim’s village until 2032. 

He also received an 18-month community service order that included 200 hours’ unpaid work and a £405 victim surcharge.

His relationship with the junior pharmacist referred to in the regulator’s fitness to practise report as Colleague A began in early 2021 and ended in October that year.

Following the end of relationship, he harassed her between December 2021 and May 2022 by making multiple calls and sending text messages and emails seeking repayment of gifts he had given her including, he claimed, a payment of £50,000 to help with her mortgage. 

This behaviour escalated when he placed a tracking device on her car to monitor Colleague A’s movements, which she reported to the police. 

Mr Gill had previously received a warning from the GPhC in May 2021 when he and Colleague A were caught on CCTV engaged in sexual conduct, which led to his being suspended by his employer and ultimately to his closing down his pharmacy business at the prison altogether. 

In his FtP hearing, which took place over July 3-4, he told the committee he has not worked as a pharmacist since then as he wished to wait “until he could bear to look patients in the eye again”. 

Mr Gill said he was deeply ashamed of his actions and recognised the impact they had had on Colleague A, as well as the damage they had caused to his profession’s reputation.

He said his offender management course had helped him to reflect on and understand the importance of thinking carefully before acting in anger, and that he had given up on getting back the money which he now views as “the necessary cost for moving forward with his and his wife’s life together”.

He said he was “not in any rush to return to pharmacy” but would like to in the future as he was “proud to call himself a pharmacist,” adding that he was prepared to accept any sanction imposed by the FtP committee. 

Acknowledging the sincerity of Mr Gill’s apology, the FtP committee nonetheless found his breaches of the professional code were so serious as to warrant a six-month suspension.