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Shaun Wilson

Doctor with gruesome fetish gets struck off after removing his own legs

Vascular surgeon Neil Hopper (BBC) - (PA Media)

A doctor who froze his own legs with dry ice as part of a sexual fetish has been struck off the medical register by a tribunal.

Neil Hopper, 50, was a consultant vascular surgeon at Treliske Hospital in Truro, Cornwall, when he was jailed for 32 months in September last year over a bizarre fraud worth over £466,000.

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