THE BUTCHER SURGEON

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POLICEWOMAN Marie Pinfield was diagnosed with a major tumour in 2006. But Paterson failed to take all her breast tissue away. A second op was unsuccessful and she died aged 50 in 200 .

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MOTHER-of-two Michelle Flavelle, 47, died in 2013, eight years after Paterson carried out a ‘cleavage sparing’ mastectomy. In 2010, tests revealed the cancer had spread to her liver.

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HELEN Gardiner, from Castle Bromwich, was told she may have had five unnecessary procedures while under the care of Paterson at Spire Parkway Hospital in Solihull.

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MARIE Bailey, 32, had suspected Paget disease, and was operated on by Paterson. Mrs Bailey, from Tamworth, says: ‘He put me through something I didn’t need.’

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HAIRDRESSER Deborah Hawtin, 52, blames Paterson for the collapse of her marriage. He told the mother-of-two she had cancer, but in reality, the lump was harmless tissue.

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FLORIST Sharon Hollings, 46, has been told she is at greater risk of her breast cancer returning after she unwittingly underwent one of Paterson’s ‘cleavage sparing operations’.

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JO FRANKLIN-PITT, 56, underwent a ‘cleavage sparing’ mastectomy by Paterson in 1 . Another surgeon later noticed the rogue doctor had not removed all the tissue.

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LEANNE Joseph, 36, of Walsall, was 25 when Paterson carried out an ‘entirely disproportionate’ operation to remove her milk ducts. He said she had pre-cancerous cells when she did not.

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GAIL Lawrence, 50, is convinced that she was forced to suffer breast cancer twice because Paterson failed to take away all of her left breast the first time she was treated.

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SARAH Jane Downing was operated on just a year after Paterson became a consultant in 1 7. She found out later that all she had required was a needle biopsy.