A surgeon with a “sexual obsession” for cutting off parts of his body had his own legs amputated as part of an insurance scam, officials in the UK said on Thursday.
Doctor Neil Hopper, 49, submerged his own legs for eight hours in a combination of ice and dry ice so they would have to be removed, while falsely claiming to his insurers that he had sepsis, prosecutor Nicholas Lee said.
He admitted two counts of insurance fraud and three of possessing extreme pornography at Truro Crown Court, southwest England, BBC News reported.
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The British surgeon pocketed more than $600,000 as part of the scam. Instagram/@bionicsurgeon
The vascular surgeon had carried out hundreds of amputation operations on patients while working for the state-run National Health Service
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