Bloodgate scandal doctor 'pressured into cutting rugby player's
lip'  Harlequins team doctor acted after 'panicked' winger
realised fake blood ruse was rumbled, hearing told Tom Williams
Tom Williams leads the field of play with fake blood pouring
from his mouth. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty  A rugby union
club doctor facing medical disciplinary charges over the so-
called Bloodgate scandal deliberately cut the lip of a player
pretending to be injured, but only after she was asked twice by
the "panicked and agitated" winger at the centre of the plot, a
hearing heard today.  Dr Wendy Chapman, an accident and
emergency consultant who was the Harlequins team doctor,
reluctantly agreed to slice the inside of Tom Williams's lower
lip with a stitch cutter after the player realised an elaborate
ruse involving a capsule of fake theatrical blood had been
rumbled by opposing players and officials.  "I think I was very
panicky," Williams, 26, told the General Medical Council hearing
in Manchester, describing the scene