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‘Psychopath’ surgeon acted like he was God
A PSYCHO surgeon who carried out breast ops after falsely telling patients they had cancer was jailed for 15 years yesterday.
Ian Paterson, 59, “behaved like God” and exaggerated or invented people’s illnesses in order to earn more money, a court heard.
Then he carried out “extensive lifechanging operations for no medically justifiable reason”.
Paterson had been convicted of wounding charges involving 10 private patients at an earlier trial. Jailing him at Nottingham Crown Court yesterday, Mr Justice Jeremy Baker told him: “In pursuit of your own material rewards you lost sight of what you were doing.
“You can be a charming and charismatic individual but you deliberately used those characteristics to manipulate your patients.”
Victim Frances Perks described Patterson as “a psychopath.” She said: “Why would anyone in their right mind do operations to people knowing that they didn’t need them?’’
Terrible
Victim John Ingram was applauded in court when he branded him a “criminal”.
Det Chief Insp Caroline Marsh, of West Midlands Police, said Paterson had “shown no remorse for the terrible things he has done”.
NHS chiefs have paid out £10million in damages to more than 250 patients treated on the health service.
Paterson also carried out needless operations on hundreds of women at two private hospitals in the West Midlands run by Spire Healthcare between 1993 and 2012.
They have not been compensated because Spire say Paterson was not employed by them. A spokesman said: “We have learned lessons.”