Disgraced Surgeon Ian Paterson Jailed For 15 Years

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-40108558

This case bears more than a slight resemblance to Shipman.

Just how did this Surgeon perform so many unnecessary operations on people, without all the other health professionals smelling a rat ?

[maggiebee]

Should throw away the key for all the pain and suffering he's inflicted (unnecessarily) on his patients, both male and female. Despicable man.

[Bazile]

It makes you wonder if his registrars didn't suspect something was wrong - Or did they, but was too scared to blow the whistle

[Mamyalynne]

Chilling.

[Baldric]

Shipman was a murderer, I don't think he made any financial gain from his victims.
This man carried out needless operations for financial gain but as far as I know didn't actually kill anyone.
I agree that Jail is the best place for him.

[Islay]

Baldric Shipman attempted to make financial gain out of his last victim by forging the will - this basically led to his downfall as up to that point his victims family had not been suspicious.
But the change in will was too much to handle.

[Apariah]

perhaps the other prisoners will remove parts of him for no good reason eh?

[Baldric]

So he didn't make any financial gain from his victims then Islay?

[Islay]

He attempted to Baldric

[Mamyalynne]

Dame Janet Smith saw Shipman's attempt to manipulate the will as a decisive act.

//She said he might have deliberately bungled the forging of the £360,000 will that eventually trapped him because he felt "an overwhelming need to stop killing."
She went on: "Either his plan would succeed and he would run away with the money, or he would be caught. Either way, the killing would be stopped."//

Full attempt at trying to fathom his motives here.Old but still relevant.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1401977/The-question-remains-why-did-he-kill.html


It won't be the same for all but I think power is strongly to the fore in many of these cases.

[Bazile]

thanks for the BA mikey .

He must have got some perverse pleasure from wielding the knife

[Bazile]

How many of the 15 yrs will he have to serve ?

[andy-hughes]

I think there is definitely a 'God' complex at work here, boosted and abetted by the unwillingness of subordinates to challenge someone who rules all he surveys.

[gness]

There is a documentary on Chanel 5 tonight which may shed some light on how well warned his employers were.....and if they failed to act on warnings......we shall see......x

[mikey4444]

For those that can stand it, there is a special program on Channel 5, at 22:00 tonight.....not sure if I will be watching it, as I am very squeamish !

[hc4361]

Don't know about God complex - more like greed. He carried out these operations on private patients

[Peter Pedant]

// It makes you wonder if his registrars didn't suspect something was wrong - Or did they, but was too scared to blow the whistle//

they probably didnt - Paterson was doing a lot down the private hospital where the registrars dont lurk ....

I listened hard to the patchy evidence - and no one ever said
Paterson shortened patients lives....did they ?

[Peter Pedant]

// He must have got some perverse pleasure from wielding the knife//

I dont think we know what surgeons are thinking when they do operations that they know dont work

I dont think any of them have told us.

[jno]

by all accounts, the people who hired him were warned by his previous employers that he was trouble; and some of those who worked with him resigned.

It sounds as though rats were smelt - possibly not the actual crimes he was convicted of - and nobody wanted to know.

[douglas9401]

Och Mikey, just take a deep breath and try not to squeam. :)

[naomi24]

//How many of the 15 yrs will he have to serve ? //

According to BBC television news tonight, 7.5 years.