Amputee surgeon struck off for posing extreme risk

Amputee surgeon struck off for posing extreme risk53 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleLisa YoungCornwallInstagram/BionicsurgeonThe medical tribunal panel found Neil Hopper's fitness to practise "is currently impaired by way of his conviction"A convicted NHS vascular surgeon who froze his own legs so they had to be removed has been struck off the medical register.Neil Hopper, 50, of Truro, Cornwall, was sentenced in September to 32 months in prison and given an 10-year sexual harm prevention order for insurance fraud and possessing extreme pornography.On Friday, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel decided Hopper's fitness to practise had been impaired in relation to his convictions and sanctioned him to removal from the medical register.Tribunal chair Samantha Gray said the panel had determined Hopper posed "an extremely high level of risk to public protection with no demonstrable lack insight or remedial behaviour".Warning: Contains graphic descriptionsInstagram/BionicsurgeonThe panel was told Hopper's consumption of extreme pornography and association with the maker of the videos showed he had "a blatant disregard for the wellbeing of the public"Three of Hopper's five convictions resulted from him buying three videos featuring the clamping and removal of male genitalia from Marius Gustavson, who was jailed for 22 years in 2024 for offences related to mutilating paying customers and streaming it online.Robert Dudley, representing the General Medical Council, said the extreme pornography body modification videos Hopper had bought and watched "had been conducted to, and had resulted in, serious injury" to members of the public.He said: "It is apparent to the tribunal Hopper was sexually motivated by the videos and by his own amputation."The consumption of the videos and his association with their maker showed Hopper to have "a blatant disregard for the wellbeing of the...