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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Matthew Cooper

Judge criticises surgeon Peter Brooks’ ‘cynical’ trial-delaying tactics

Loughborough Courthouse was chosen because it had wheelchair access (Joe Giddens/PA) - (PA Archive)

Dr Peter Brooks frustrated justice for more than four years by claiming insanity, refusing to have surgery on a fractured jaw, and staging repeated “desperately bleak” hunger strikes.

The 61-year-old plastic surgeon also declined to see a psychiatrist while in prison and repeatedly shunned court hearings, meaning seven of his nine scheduled trials failed to even start before a jury.

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