Goncalo De Melo Rodrigues, registration number 2081610, was removed from the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)’s register after being convicted on three counts of “intentionally causing another to look at a sexual image without consent”.
At hearings between June 29 and 30, the GPhC’s fitness-to-practise committee heard the pharmacist was working as a locum at a Boots in West Scotland when he sent images of his penis to two female colleagues.
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According to the determination document, the GPhC said Rodrigues’ behaviour was “persistent, despite a clear indication that the behaviour was unwanted” and he “later repeated his behaviour despite being spoken to by a manager”.
The committee noted that there was an “absence of any evidence” of Rodrigues’ “remorse, insight or remediation”.
Offences and arrest
Rodrigues committed the offences between May 2023 and October 2025.
The GPhC said one witness told a Boots manager in August 2023 that a colleague had shown her a video Rodrigues had sent to her of a “woman having an orgasm”.
The witness said the colleague was “visibly upset” and “did not want to work with him as a result”.
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The same day, a second colleague told a manager at Boots that she had met Rodrigues through Facebook, after which he began sending photos of himself “that became increasingly inappropriate”.
She told the manager that Rodrigues had sent her “photos of his penis” and that she was “very upset” by this.
And an undated account by a third colleague said Rodrigues had been “sexting her” and “making sexually explicit comments”.
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She added that these included a comment that “he’d like to bend me over the desk at work and that work was a ‘kink’ of his”.
He also sent her a disappearing message which contained an image of his erect penis, she said, and she “described feeling sick and violated”.
The committee heard that a Boots superintendent pharmacist relayed the reports from the female members of staff to the GPhC in October 2023, and the local area manager “attempted” to discuss the concerns with Rodrigues, but he denied “any wrongdoing”.
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Rodrigues was arrested by Police Scotland on November 11, 2023, and was convicted on three counts of “intentionally causing another to look at a sexual image without consent” on July 31, 2025.
He received a concurrent community payback order supervised over six months and was placed on the sex offender register for five years from the date of his conviction.
“Breach of trust”
Rodrigues did not attend the hearing, nor did he have any representation throughout, and the committee did not identify any mitigating factors in the case.
But it stressed that his conduct involved a “persistent breach of the trust between colleagues”, was “repeated over two years” and resulted in three convictions involving three different victims.
It added that “harm was caused” to the victims of his behaviour and that one victim was aged just 19.
“Persistent disregard”
The committee found that “sexual offending of this nature is difficult to remediate” and that a finding of impairment was “necessary to protect the public”.
It said “treating people with dignity and respect goes to the very core of the principles of the profession” and that Rodrigues’ offending “cannot be reconciled with those principles”.
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And it added that in his treatment of his colleagues, Rodrigues “repeatedly demonstrated a persistent disregard” for the “principles of dignity and consent”.
The committee concluded that “only removal could uphold public confidence in the profession and uphold professional standards”.
Read the determination in full here.
