Published • loading... • Updated
Surgeon Who Bought Genital Mutilation Videos and Froze Off His Own Legs Struck Off
The tribunal said his conduct and fraud convictions showed a lack of insight, and it imposed an immediate erasure order.
- On Friday, May 29, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service struck vascular surgeon Neil Hopper off the General Medical Council register following a hearing into his convictions for insurance fraud and possession of extreme pornographic images.
- Hopper previously admitted to self-inflicting irreversible leg damage using dry ice in April 2019, then swindled insurance companies by falsely claiming the amputations resulted from life-threatening illness rather than self-inflicted injury.
- Investigations revealed Hopper accessed the EunuchMaker website run by convicted criminal Marius Gustavson, exchanging messages expressing sexual gratification from viewing mutilation content while fraudulently obtaining £466,653.81 from two insurers.
- The tribunal determined Hopper's "behaviours leading to his convictions demonstrated a blatant disregard of all standards expected," finding he posed an extremely high risk to public protection with no demonstrable insight or remedial behaviour.
- Gustavson, who led the extreme body modification ring, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2024 with a minimum 22-year term at the Old Bailey for carrying out procedures on people as young as 16.
Insights by Ground AI
13 Articles
13 Articles
An incredible story of lies has been revealed in Britain: a surgeon had claimed to have lost both legs through a sepsis, but in truth he had frozen his limbs so that they had to die and amputate. The reason for this was a "sexual interest". For many years Neil Hopper had explained that he had contracted a blood poisoning with his daughter during camping in 2019 and that both legs had to be removed. He even appeared on British television to tell …
·Vienna, Austria
Read Full Article
Coverage Details
Total News Sources13
Leaning Left0Leaning Right1Center8Last UpdatedBias Distribution89% Center
Bias Distribution
- 89% of the sources are Center
89% Center
C 89%
11%
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
