Surgeon encourages others to amputate limbs….

[ChompandaGrazia]

…. then deliberately gives himself sepsis so he can have his legs amputated.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75r21ww30vo
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/23/cornwall-surgeon-accused-of-over-amputation-of-his-own-legs

what the actual fuck?

I read a few articles- utterly horrifying… and yes if I’d been a patient of his I would be totally unreasoned by the blanket statement from the NHS that his patients weren’t impacted. He got a disgusting thrill out of this, of course there is every chance his patients have been impacted. You just hope to God that no one has had an amputation they didn’t need.

^unreassured that should say, not unreasoned…

Thanks, here is an updated article
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/04/nhs-surgeon-legs-removed-jailed-fraud

He also admitted three charges of possessing extreme pornographic images relating to videos from a website called the EunuchMaker.

Gosh really no-one could've predicted that

The dry ice gave him gangrene that is very similar to sepsis.

Ugh. Men.

There's loads of details in the previous trial of his associate (?) Marius Gustavson. All very seedy and bizarre as you can imagine.

www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FINAL-JUDGMENT-REX-V-CRIMI-APPLEBY-AND-OTHS-202400381-A1.pdf

Remind me of the Peter Greenaway film ‘A Zed and two Noughts’ (1985?) on this theme -very disturbing.