Disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson has refused to attend the first of more than 60 inquests touching on the deaths of his former patients because he believes the coroner’s investigation is “biased”, the court has been told.
The breast surgeon, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted of multiple counts of wounding in 2017, was ordered by coroner Richard Foster to appear remotely at Birmingham and Solihull Coroner’s Court on Tuesday to give evidence at the inquest of Chloe Nikitas, who died at the age of 43 in April 2008.
