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Surgeon Pleads GUILTY After Purposely Amputating Legs for Sexual Fetish
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September 4, 2025
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4:13Now Playing49-year-old vascular surgeon Neil Hopper was once named the “bravest in Britain” – after he had to amputate both of his legs.But now the doctor, who performed hundreds of amputation operations of his own, has pleaded guilty to two fraud charges – after he told insurers that his legs needed to be removed because of sepsis and not because of a self-inflicted injury. According to reports from inside the courtroom, Hopper actually froze his own legs with ice and dry ice to ensure his legs would be removed. According to testimony laid out against Hopper in court, the surgeon wanted his legs to be chopped off because of an “obsession with removing parts of his own body and a sexual interest in doing so.”
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