Doctor guilty over 'abortion drink'

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Erin was found guilty of two charges of attempting to spike Bella Prowse's Starbucks coffee and orange juice.

But an Old Bailey jury found him not guilty of spiking her Earl Grey tea, and could not reach a verdict on a charge of procuring drugs to induce an abortion.

The court was told Miss Prowse, 33, became suspicious and did not consume the drinks, which were later found to contain abortion-inducing drugs.

Erin, 44, of Kensington, west London, was remanded in custody until November 16 for sentencing.

Miss Prowse, who was in the public gallery, sobbed as she waited for the verdicts and buried her head in her lap. Her friends clapped when the guilty verdicts were announced.

Hospital secretary Miss Prowse was said by the prosecution to have become pregnant after a brief affair with married father-of-two Erin following a Christmas party.

After refusing his pleas to have an abortion, she went to police, claiming he had put drugs into her Earl Grey tea. Miss Prowse gave birth to a healthy son in September last year.

Erin had denied the charges, claiming to have only got the drugs after being urged to by Miss Prowse, and only to demonstrate that they were impractical to use.

Now Erin's glittering career as a respiratory specialist at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, and a research fellow at the Royal Brompton Hospital, both in west London, lies in ruins.