An NHS vascular surgeon who was sexually “obsessed” with becoming an amputee used dry ice to freeze his legs to the point they needed to be removed then claimed £466,653 from his insurers.
Neil Hopper, 49, who carried out hundreds of amputations for patients, has been jailed for 32 months after he admitted to lying to insurers over the removal of his own legs and possessing extreme pornography from a man dubbed the "Eunuch Maker".
