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Mark Russell

Sugar daddy surgeon's 'spectacular fall from grace'

Richard Sackelariou contacted his victims on social media, including sugar daddy websites. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

A former leading plastic surgeon who used sugar daddy websites to contact and pay girls as young as 13 for sex has had "a spectacular fall from grace".

Defence barrister Philip Strickland told Newcastle District Court how Richard Sackelariou, 70, had lost everything after his life changed dramatically in 2017 when he had major surgery and was required to wear a colostomy bag for five years.

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