They were a handsome, stylish couple who became known for their hospitality and generosity. On the same evening, he and his then wife Sally ferried party guests in evening clothes across the harbour to their inner western Sydney home at Birchgrove. Sydney Harbour-front mansion Altona which the Hampshires made property history in 1988 after buying it for $11.5m. Robert Hampshire first made the society pages back in 1986, when he had a walk-on part in a production of Lucia de Lammermoor, for which he had paid $1100. Justice Marks said that Dr Hampshire’s troubled history with the NSW Medical Tribunal meant he “does not have good prospects of succeeding on his appeal”.
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Pending a full hearing into the incident, Dr Hampshire has been refused an appeal to continue practising on the grounds he is “a risk to the health and safety of the public”.Īccording to the Sydney Morning Herald, Acting Justice Frank Marks in the Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal last week refused to lift his suspension. He told the HCCC that he had been out all day at a friend’s birthday lunch drinking and had taken Temazepam, a sleeping tablet similar to Valium.ĭr Hampshire said he couldn’t remember the name of the friend whose birthday lunch he attended, nor the text messages and phone calls. Hampshire left the messages in April this year on the phone of a woman who had consulted him professionally as a client. His report on Matthew Newton’s depression led to the actor’s acquittal on assault charges against actor Brooke Satchwell.ĭr Hampshire also wrote a psychiatric report supporting the release on bail of Evie Amati, the woman charged with the suburban 7-Eleven axe attack in January this year.Ī passionate cyclist, generous host and owner of a multimillion-dollar property empire, Dr Hampshire was bankrupted in 2010. Over a 30-year career as a consul, the Macquarie Street doctor has provided psychiatric reports in high profile court cases.ĭr Hampshire, 69, gave evidence on behalf of Gordon Wood, who sued the State of NSW for $20m after he was acquitted of murdering model girlfriend Caroline Byrne. This may be the death knell to the colourful career of the doctor, who was first struck off the medical register in 1992 for forging prescriptions to supply himself with the narcotic pethidine. The flamboyant Sydney psychiatrist, who once partied with A-listers and threw lavish receptions at his waterfront mansion Altona, has been suspended from practising medicine, Fairfax reports. LEWD messages on a drinking binge may have finally sealed the downfall of high society shrink Robert Hampshire who had survived pethidine addiction, bankruptcy and a property empire bust.
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