An NHS vascular surgeon, Neil Hopper, has been jailed for an incredibly peculiar case. The entire incident has people reeling.
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Vascular surgeon for the NHS, Neil Hopper, has been jailed for 32 months after he admitted to fraud in regards to an amputation of his own legs. He was found in possession of extreme pornography of genital mutilation.
49-year-old Hopper has now pleaded guilty to two charges of fraud. For making two fraudulent claims to two insurance companies totaling about £466,653.81 (about $620,000) made to two insurance companies in regards to the amputation of his legs due to injury. While in reality, the amputation was due to self-inflicted injury.
He has also admitted to three charges of possessing extreme pornographic images, which are related to videos published on a website called EunuchMaker run by Marius Gustavson, which depict extreme genital mutiliation.
He also admitted three charges of possessing extreme pornographic images, relating to videos by a website called the EunuchMaker run by Marius Gustavson, which depicted genital mutilation.
Gustavson has been handed a sentence of at least 22 years in prison himself as of last year. He was known for mutilating paying customers and streaming the process online for ‘a mix of sexual gratification as well as financial reward’, according to the BBC News in 2019.
In addition to the fraud, Hopper is said to have caused the self-inflicted injury ‘for sexual gratification’.
The judge said in the case, “You were admitted to hospital when you have the symptoms of sepsis well knowing what the medics will be looking out.”
“You were in hospital for six weeks and after many tests and a variety of treatments the medics decided your feet could not be saved and they amputated on May 17 [2019].”
The judge went on to say in his judgment, “You subsequently made fraudulent insurance claims to Aviva and Old Mutual Wealth, receiving a total of £466,000 fraudulently by representing that the injuries were organic, caused by sepsis, when you caused the injury seemingly at least in part for sexual gratification.”
Prosecutor Nicholas Lee was in agreement and said that Hopper’s amputation was ‘a combination of obsession with removing parts of his own body and a sexual interest in doing so’.
“It seems to have been a long-standing ambition of his,” Lee observed.
Before he had his own legs removed, as an NHS surgeon, Hopper had carried out hundreds of amputations as part of his work, according to reports.
He returned to his job less than six months after his amputation. But it was in December 2023 that he was suspended from work, and in March 2023 when he was arrested.
He was identified after an investigation into Gustavson, with whom he is said to have exchanged 1,500 messages about his lower leg amputation and how he would have done it.
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