THE trial date has been set for a village doctor accused of depositing his semen in cups of tea he gave to a woman.

Dr Nicholas John Chapman, 55, faces two charges of sexual activity without consent.

He will appear before a judge and jury at Gloucester Crown Court on Monday, June 5.

The trial is estimated to last seven days.

Chapman is accused of attempting on September 13 2021 to cause a woman aged 16 or over to engage in sexual activity by causing her to ingest his semen when she did not consent and he did not reasonably believe that she did.

He is also alleged to have committed the same offence on at least one occasion between September 12 2020 and September 12 2021.

Father-of-three Chapman has previously appeared at Taunton Magistrates' Court and Taunton Crown Court, where the court heard he lived in Kingston St Mary with his partner.

At the Crown Court hearing, Mr Recorder John Trevaskis told Chapman he would remain on conditional bail imposed at a previous appearance at Taunton Magistrates' Court.

He had initially been told his trial would be at Taunton Crown Court and would last four or five days.

The case has subsequently been transferred to Gloucester.

The complainant in the case, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will give her evidence from behind a screen when the case comes to trial.

Chapman was suspended from his post as a GP at the 4,000-patient North Curry Health Centre when the accusations came to light.

He was born in South Africa, where he qualified as a doctor at the University of Cape Town in 1993.