In his private practice, Ian Paterson lied to exaggerate risks that patients would develop breast cancer, performing needless surgery and in some cases mastectomies for which patients paid, judge Jeremy Baker said. "The physical, and particularly, psychological effect upon each of them, has been profound," the judge told Nottingham Crown Court. The 59-year-old surgeon's motives were not clear, the judge said, but he had shown a "complete lack of remorse" during the trial. "Without any regard for the long-term effects which it had on them, you deliberately played upon their worst fears," he said. "We will never know the real reason he has acted in such an evil way," she told reporters outside the court.

Source: bd News24 May 31, 2017 14:48 UTC