A Glasgow Sheriff Court jury last week (January 16) found Tauqeer Azam of Langlook Crescent in Glasgow guilty of two sexual offences during consultations at a Boots and Well Pharmacy, the court today (January 23) told C+D.
Hearing documents revealed that in May 2021, 41-year-old Azam directed “a verbal sexual communication at [a woman] without her consent” at a Boots branch in Gyle Shopping Centre, Edinburgh.
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He uttered “remarks of a sexual nature while [he was] conducting a medical examination”, they said.
They added that he was charged with doing so “intentionally and for the purposes of obtaining sexual gratification or of humiliating, distressing or alarming”.
Sexual assault
The jury also found Azam guilty of another sexual offence that took place more than two years later involving another woman.
Court documents said that in June 2023 at a Glasgow Well Pharmacy branch on Nitshill Road, Azam “did sexually assault” the second victim.
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They added that “during the course of an examination” he also uttered “sexual remarks” in addition to assaulting her.
The court told C+D that he has not yet been sentenced and will return to the court on February 13.
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In November, a pharmacy technician was removed from the register after he “took advantage” of a teenager who he messaged on Snapchat and gave cannabis “to facilitate the offence of rape”.
Last January, a locum pharmacist was given a six-month suspension for performing an “internal vaginal examination” on a patient, despite it being “neither clinically justified” nor he “qualified [or] competent to do so”.
And in August, a Boots pharmacist was struck off the register for touching a patient’s “intimate areas” for “sexual gratification” after incorrectly telling her she needed a physical examination to get a morning-after pill – although a court did not convict him for the incident.
