A former senior architect at Aberdeen City Council has been removed from the Architects Register after assaulting his wife and chasing a 14-year-old boy with a meat cleaver Colin Doig pleaded guilty to assault and behaving in a threatening or abusive manner at Dundee Sheriff Court on 30 April 2024 after an incident involving his wife and a 14-year-old boy in November 2022.  At around 10pm, after he had been drinking, Doig entered a dispute with the boy and pursued him with a ‘meat cleaver, or similar implement,’ Dundee Sheriff Court found. He chased the boy upstairs, repeatedly punching his bedroom door, shouting and screaming.  When his wife attempted to intervene, he repeatedly pushed her to the floor, causing her an unstable spiral fracture to her left tibia, which required eight pins and a plate to be inserted into her leg during a subsequent operation. Doig was arrested after his wife called the police.Advertisement In June 2024, Doig was sentenced to 225 hours of unpaid work. He was also made subject to a notice under section 7 of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007, which could bar him from working with children or adults.  The Architects Registration Board (ARB)’s professional conduct committee has now decided to erase Doig from the register, finding that his conviction ‘has material relevance to the registered person’s fitness to practise as an architect’.  In its written decision, the committee said it had considered Doig’s lack of previous disciplinary history, his engagement with the ARB throughout its inquiries; and his diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder type 1, which a social work reporter told the court would have affected the behaviour relating to his crimes.  However, the committee concluded: ‘The admitted allegation has the potential to diminish both the registered person’s reputation and that of the profession generally,’ adding that erasure ‘would be appropriate to protect the public’.  An Aberdeen City Council spokesperson confirmed that Doig was no longer employed by the authority.Advertisement 2025-04-16 Will Ing comment and share