She engaged in a peaceful (though illegal) protest.

Alison Moore What a bizarre thing for the GMC to get into. Meanwhile too many serious safety cases never get past initial triage.

Shaun Lintern yes - hard to see that her actions would have had any adverse impact on her patients or made her unfit to practise. I still find it astonishing that you can be imprisoned for continuing to hold up a sign in a peaceful protest (which is what the contempt of court amounted to).

Alison Moore Yep. Increasingly it seems to me the GMC is troubled and takes the easy cases. Surgeon in Manchester accused (now proven) of both sexual misconduct and harming patients, never even got to an investigation stage. But if he had asked to borrow a laptop...?