More than 100 victims of rogue breast surgeon
MORE than 100 people treated by rogue breast surgeon Ian Paterson have come forward since his conviction for wounding patients, a law firm said.
Paterson lied to patients and exaggerated or invented the risk of cancer to convince them to go under the knife, possibly to improve his earnings.
He was convicted of 17 counts of wounding with intent and three counts of unlawful wounding against 10 private patients at Nottingham Crown Court last month after a sevenweek trial.
Medical negligence specialist at Thompsons Solicitors Linda Millband said 103 clients treated at Spire Healthcare hospitals have sought legal advice from the firm following Paterson’s well-publicised trial and guilty verdicts.
She said: “Over the weeks we have received more and more calls from ex-private patients of Paterson.”
His trial heard harrowing testimony from 10 patients treated in the private sector between 1997 and 2011 at Spire’s Little Aston and Parkway hospitals in the West Midlands, with one victim telling jurors: “That person has ruined my life.”
One of the victims of Scottish-born Paterson looked like a “car crash victim” after undergoing an unnecessary mastectomy while another had a “significant deformity” after a pair of needless operations.