Pictured: Plastic surgeon, 55, held over stabbing of ex-NHS colleague
A FORMER £ 100,000- a- year plastic surgeon was being questioned by police last night on suspicion of stabbing his old boss at his home.
Graeme Perks, 65, was left fighting for his life after being knifed in the chest and stomach by an early-morning intruder at his detached £800,000 home.
The retired plastic surgeon remains in a serious but stable condition in hospital following the attack, which took place at 4am on Thursday.
Police said Mr Perks went to investigate the sound of breaking glass at his former vicarage home in the village of Halam, Nottinghamshire, before he was
‘His family, who were upstairs, are shocked’
stabbed by the attacker, who then ran off.
The father of four lives at the property with his wife Beverley, 68, and one of his children.
It is understood that Jonathan Brooks, a 55-year-old former colleague of Mr Perks, who worked with him at Nottingham City Hospital until 2012, was arrested on Thursday.
Forensic officers could be seen searching Mr Brooks’s £600,000 five-bedroom detached house in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, yesterday.
Sales director Graham Podmore, 51, said the victim was a ‘lovely person’ and‘ wellrespected surgeon’.
‘He’s a really nice guy, who has a really lovely family,’ he added. ‘He is a well-respected surgeon. He and Beverley have four grown-up children.
‘We speak as I walk the dog past the house. I’m very, very shocked. The first I heard of it was on the news.
‘We don’t know what happened or who did it.
‘It’s the last thing you expect to happen to him and be going on here. Obviously he did have enemies but whoever did this to him is the exception, not the rule.’
Mr Perks was one of Britain’s top breast augmentation surgeons before he retired last November. He was head of the hospital’s department of plastic, reconstructive and burns surgery and l ed t he breast-augmentation industry group, known as BAPRAS, from 2013 to 2014.
BAPRAS described him as ‘one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession’.
President Ruth Waters said they had been contacted by colleagues all around the world sending their best wishes.
Detective Inspector Gayle Hart said: ‘ This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family – who were upstairs at the time – are extremely shocked.’