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NHS Surgeon Jailed for 32 Months for Insurance Fraud After Self-Inflicted Amputations
Neil Hopper, motivated by a sexual interest in amputation and greed, fraudulently claimed over £466,000 from insurers by lying about the cause of his self-inflicted leg amputations.
- Neil Hopper, a 49-year-old vascular surgeon from Truro, was jailed for 32 months in 2023 after pleading guilty to insurance fraud and possessing extreme pornographic images.
- Hopper deliberately froze his own legs with dry ice in April 2019, motivated by a long-standing obsession and a sexual interest in amputation.
- He fraudulently claimed more than £466,000 from two insurance companies by falsely stating his amputations were caused by illness, and spent the money on luxury items including a camper van and home improvements.
- Judge James Adkin sentenced Hopper to 22 months for the fraud and 10 months consecutively for the possession of extreme images, while the General Medical Council suspended him from the medical register in December 2023.
- The hospital group where Hopper worked confirmed that the charges were unrelated to his professional behavior and found no indication of any danger to patients, adding that staff received appropriate support following the matter.
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First of all it looks like a stroke of fate. A British surgeon has to amputate both lower legs. But now it is clear: he had frozen his legs with dry ice in order to amputate them for sexual reasons.
In the United Kingdom, a surgeon has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for fraud and possession of extreme pornography. The man had his legs amputated as part of a sexual fantasy rather than out of medical necessity, raking in nearly half a million pounds in compensation claims. Meanwhile, his patients fear they too have had their limbs amputated unnecessarily.
According to the British court that judged him on Thursday, Neil Hopper, 49 years old, self-inflicted with injuries so that he could be amputated and hit the insurance pactole. But not that... he saw around this operation "a sexual interest".
UK Doctor, Who Chopped Off His Legs, Jailed For Fraud, Saving Amputation Porn
A UK judge jailed a vascular surgeon Thursday after he admitted making fraudulent insurance claims that involved having his legs amputated following self-inflicted injuries made "in part for sexual gratification".
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