Truro surgeon accused of fraud over his leg amputations

The surgeon of the blood vessels who carried out a whole lot of amputations appeared earlier than his legs had been eliminated in court docket for fraud.

Neil Huber, 49, from Trore, Cornwall, has been charged with encouraging another person to take away elements of the physique from others.

He appeared earlier than the Justice of the Peace Courtroom in Cornwall in Budmin on fees of fraud by way of fallacious illustration, and a cost of encouraging or serving to to commit a criminal offense that may be accused solely, that are critical bodily hurt.

The judges detonated him within the reservation and ordered him to look earlier than the Trorn Crown court docket on August 26.

It’s claimed that between 3 and 26 June 2019, Mr. Hopper made a fallacious illustration of insurance coverage firms by claiming that accidents in his legs had been the results of the 2 stinks, not for the sake of the self.

He additionally faces charges that between August 21, 2018 and December 4, 2020, he purchased movies from an internet site known as The Eunuch Maker, which confirmed the removing of the limbs and inspired Marius Gustavron to take away elements of the physique from third events.

Police mentioned that Mr. Hopper, who was initially from Abeestoyeth, Ceridigion, was working by Cornwall Royal Cornwall Hospitals from 2013 till he was arrested in March 2023.

It has been suspended from the medical registry since December 2023.

A spokesman for the Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS TRUST mentioned:

They added, “Former sufferers with any questions or considerations about their therapy can contact the affected person’s expertise in Cornwall Hospitals,” they added.