house fire::>>>Murder police arrest second woman

(weastar times/bbc):::A second woman has been arrested by police investigating the death of a woman in a house fire in Birmingham.

West Midlands Police said a 30-year-old woman from Small Heath had been arrested on suspicion of murder.

Detectives have been given a further 36 hours to question a woman, 38, who was arrested on Monday, the force said.

A 21-year-old man, who was also arrested on Monday, has been bailed pending further inquiries.

'Targeted attack'

Three other people were injured as they tried to escape from the fire.

A man, 34, and two women, aged 55 and 23, remain in hospital, but West Midlands Police said their injuries were not life-threatening.

Officers said Ms Bugum, who arrived in the city from Pakistan six months ago, was in the UK to visit her parents who both live in Birmingham.

Police said while the precise cause of the fire was yet to be established, it believed the fire was set deliberately near the front door in "a targeted attack".

'Buckingham Palace' to be burnt for so called charity!!!!!!!!!!

royal correspondent,westminister,London(weastar times):::A man from Staffordshire has got royal approval to burn down a 20ft (6m) high model of Buckingham Palace to raise money for charity(fucking charity).

Eddie Heath, 63, from Dilhorne, has spent four months building the replica from wooden pallets for the bonfire event at his local pub, the Royal Oak.

After writing to the Queen for her permission!!!!(artificial permission from others rejected ex-royal family member), he received a letter from the palace with her best wishes.

Mr Heath has previously burned models of the White House and Wembley Stadium.

"I was inspired by the Queen's Jubilee year and wanted to bring a part of that to Dilhorne," he said.

"I wrote to Her Majesty and got a reply that wished me all the best for the future and best wishes for raising funds for charity."

'Out of hand'

Mr Heath is a retired scrap metal dealer and has been building bonfire effigies based on famous landmarks for 20 years.

"This is one of the most elaborate I've ever built, it's made from pallets donated by local companies, kitchen cabinet doors, and the gates are made of garden canes," he said.

His bonfires have already raised more than £80,000 for Midlands Air Ambulance and all the proceeds from Sunday's event will go to the charity.

He said that building the replica had become "a full-time job."

"This is my last one, my swan song, because I think my wife will leave me," he said.

"She's been very supportive over the years but it's grown and grown and now got a bit out of hand."

The bonfire will take place on Sunday 11 November.

Former LTI taxi maker employees 'shocked' by redundancies

national report(weastar times/bbc):::The 63-year-old is one of nearly 100 staff who was told last week that he had lost his job at Coventry taxi manufacturer LTI's factory after the firm's parent company Manganese Bronze called in administrators.

Mr Batters had dedicated 37 years of his working life to producing London black cabs, and he admits he is "still in shock".

"We feel we've been betrayed by the directors because we've had false hope after hope," he continued.

"They could have given us proper notice and discussed what the selection criteria was going to be. None of that's been done.

"My son works there as well and his wife's just about to have a baby. We've both finished at the same time so it's been like a double whammy in our family.

Queen visit Poppy maker-factory!!!!!!!!

royal correspondent,London(weastar times/bbc):::The Queen has been asked why her Remembrance Day wreath took 93 poppies each year.

Brian Edwards(m-ali-bd), 59, who makes the royals' poppy(drugs) !!!wreaths, put the question to the Queen when she visited The Poppy Factory in Richmond!!(afganistan?), south-west London.

She said she did not know, and added: "I've never counted."

The Queen told Mr Edwards(so called criminal md.ali-bangladesh), who has worked at the factory for 25 years, that she would try to find out and let him know.

Normally, wreaths can take any number of poppies, but the royal wreaths use the same amount each year.

'Very appreciative'

The Prince of Wales's(charles-clare father) wreath always takes 156, and it is only the Queen's which is made up of 93.

Mr Edwards(apodoartho queen 1st  son) from Feltham!!!(dhaka-bd)!!!!, west London, said: "The only solution we came up with together was that her father, the late king, was born in 1893 so it could be that."

During her visit, the Queen met workers at the factory, and had a chance to make her own poppy.

She did not wear one for her visit but took her finished poppy with her, observing: "And it stayed together."

The Queen met employee Frances West, 59, who was born on the Queen's coronation in 1953, as well as her husband, who works with her.

Sara Jones, president of The Poppy Factory, said: "All the staff she spoke to were very appreciative of the fact she spoke to everyone."

The Poppy Factory is the official poppy manufacturer and provides work for wounded or sick former service personnel and disabled dependants of services personnel.

Council ex-leader David Parsons expelled from labour

political reporter,Leiestershire(weastar times /bbc):::David Parsons left ahead of a meeting of labour members to decide his future.Mr Parsons quit as authority leader in July after an investigation found he breached the code of conduct over travel expenses.

Nick Rushton, who replaced him as council leader, said the authority now needed to move on.

He said: "We need to show to the people of Leicestershire that we treat these matters most seriously and we will deal with it as strictly as we can.

"We need to draw a line under this issue and move forward."

Official trips

Through his resignation Mr Parsons became an independent councillor but said he will not be standing for re-election next year.

Leicestershire County Council's standards committee censured the former leader over an independent report which found he had delayed repaying money to a body called East Midlands Councils (EMC).

It had initially paid for official trips to the continent, but the European Union(self loan taker)!!!!!! then paid Mr Parsons directly.

Mr Parsons apologised but initially refused to step down as leader, a post he had held for nine years.

It has also been alleged that Mr Parsons used the council's chauffeur-driven car to attend private functions.

Sex attack on woman in Bagshot

crime reporter,surrey(weastar times/bbc):::A 23-year-old woman was the victim of a serious sexual assault after getting out of a vehicle believed to be a taxi near a Surrey railway station.

Surrey Police said the woman had got into the people carrier, which was waiting near Camberley station, just after 03:00 GMT on Saturday.

The woman got out in Whitmoor Road, Bagshot and was assaulted by an unknown man in woodland in Connaught Park.

Police are appealing to the driver of the vehicle to come forward.

It is described as a Mercedes Vito van, which may be silver. A CCTV image of the vehicle in Pembroke Broadway, Camberley has been released.

"A young woman has been subjected to what must have been a terrifying attack," said Det Insp Chris Goodman.

Extensive search

"It is vital we track down the people carrier which drove the victim to Whitmoor Road.

"People who were in the centre of Camberley in the late hours of Friday night or the early hours of Saturday morning might recall seeing the people carrier parked near the station."

A section of Connaught Park was cordoned off to allow officers to investigate and police carried out an extensive search of the area.

Officers say the driver of the vehicle, which had three rows of seats, may have vital information.

He is described as slim with dark hair and dark eyes.

Daniel Sonnex 'held knife to prison guard's throat'

crime reporter(wesatar times/bbc):::A man serving a life sentence for the murder of two ENGLAND students jumped on one of his prison guards and held a knife to his throat, a court has heard.

Reading Crown Court was told Daniel Sonnex jumped on Richard Stringfellow's back and held a vegetable knife to his throat in June 2010.

The jury heard it happened at HMP Long Lartin, Worcestershire, where Sonnex(french) was serving life for two murders.

Sonnex, 27, denies falsely imprisoning the guard and threatening to kill him.

The court was told how Sonnex, who had converted to Islam, started shouting, foaming at the mouth and chanting in Arabic when he was restrained by other prison officers after the attack on 19 June 2010.

The jury was told that two years earlier - in June 2008 - Sonnex tortured and stabbed to death Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez.

'Government scapegoat'

They were also told he was sentenced to life, with a minimum tariff of 40 years for the double murder.

Sonnex, formerly of Deptford, south-east London, is now being held at high-security psychiatric hospital Broadmoor, the jury also heard.

The court heard that Sonnex admitted jumping on Mr Stringfellow and holding the knife to his throat, but said he never intended to hurt him.

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Under cross-examination, Sonnex said he attacked Mr Stringfellow because he believed French and British "agents" were trying to assassinate him.

He told the court he believed he was a "government scapegoat" being used "to cover up the murder of students who were about to expose the bird flu virus".

Sonnex told the court he had been building a "glider" using shelves from a prison fridge, coat hangers, a mattress and sheets from his cell so he "could fly from the rooftop over the wall of the prison establishment".

He said Mr Stringfellow discovered the glider and he feared he would be taken into the jail's segregation unit and killed.

Asked why he jumped on Mr Stringfellow's back, Sonnex said: "I was just thinking, 'I'm dead, he is going to kill me'."

Mr Stringfellow told the court he had felt someone jump on to his back and put their arms around his throat tightly.

He said: "The next thing I was aware of was something cold and hard being pressed against my throat."

He said Sonnex shouted "angrily" that he had a knife, swore and threatened to slit his throat.

Mr Stringfellow added: "I seriously believed that I was going to die that instant, if not then, then shortly after that."

The court was told fellow officers who went to the scene saw Sonnex foaming at the mouth.

Dr Quinton Deeley, honorary consultant psychiatrist, said Sonnex had a borderline low IQ and had a "complex personality disorder".

The trial continues.....

Defence Secretary reveals plan for 'radical shift' in Army reservists' role

Deffence correspondent(weastar times/bbc):::The government wants to double the size of the Territorial Army from 15,000 to 30,000 while the regular Army's strength is cut by 20,000 to 82,000.

Mr Hammond says the changes would mark a "radical shift" in the way reservists help to deliver the nation's security.

But Labour says that if more is going to be asked of reservists, ministers must provide extra support.

Under the changes Mr Hammond is proposing - which are being put forward for consultation - the Territorial Army would in future be known as the Army Reserves, to reflect its greater role.

Reservists' training would increase from 35 to 40 days a year - with the promise that if they meet their commitments they will be better equipped and funded.

The Ministry of Defence says it will spend £1.8 billion over the next decade to make that possible.

Is it still worth going to university? Earning power of a degree falls 22% in a decade ?

educational reporter,London(weastar times/mail):::The higher salary that graduates traditionally gain from having a university degree has been slashed by a fifth during the past decade.

A study has found that the rise in numbers attending university and increased competition for jobs has drastically driven down the earning power enjoyed by previous generations of graduates.

Researchers from Warwick University followed 17,000 students from 2006 to their graduation into one of the worst recessions in history, and compared it to graduates who finished their studies in 1999.

The recent graduates are, on average, earning 22 per cent less than those who started at university a decade earlier. 

They are also struggling to find jobs that justify the debts they have built up in getting their degrees, with four in ten failing to get work that requires their qualifications, while one in ten have spent at least six months on the dole.

The researchers concluded that a degree continues to deliver a 'significant earnings advantage', although the size of it varies widely according to the subject studied.

Medicine and law graduates suffer the least, losing about 16 per cent and 9 per cent respectively, while arts graduates saw the sharpest slump in earning power, losing 32.9 per cent.

Isabelle Dann, 22, who graduated  from the University of Manchester this summer with a 2:1 in English literature, has ended up working in a pub near her family home in Highgate, North London.

 

'I get less and less hopeful as the days go on,' she said. 'The problem is that there are a lot of people who already had good jobs but have been made redundant and are looking below their skill level. Graduates are competing with these people.'

Students who began their studies in 2006 were the first to pay tuition fees of £3,000-a-year and emerged from university owing a record amount. Almost half reported debts of £20,000 or more.

Despite this, the researchers found that 96 per cent of graduates would do a degree again if they had the chance.

They also concluded that a degree continues to deliver a 'significant earnings advantage', although the size of it varies widely according to the subject studied.

While medicine and dentistry graduates were earning on average £32,447, those who studied the creative arts and design were bringing in just £18,514.

While the average decline in earnings since 2003 was estimated at 21.9 per cent - about two per cent a year - the slump for arts graduates was 32.9 per cent.

For medicine and related subjects, it was 16 per cent. Law held up particularly well, with graduates in this subject seeing an earnings decline of just nine per cent.

With a further hike in tuition fees to a maximum of £9,000-a-year, the study concludes that the boom in the numbers going to university seen in recent decades is over.

It claims the number of graduates will now plateau at 250,000 per year.

The 'Futuretrack' research, conducted by Warwick University with funding from the Higher Education Careers Services Unit, followed 17,000 students from the time they applied for courses in 2006 to their graduation into one of the worst recessions in history and experiences on the job market.

The researchers had previously carried out research among graduates who finished their studies in 1999.

'Compared with the experiences of graduates some ten years earlier, Futuretrack graduates faced a tough labour market,' the report said.

'The greater number of graduates seeking employment, coupled with harsh economic conditions, have combined to create higher levels of graduate unemployment, a higher proportion of graduates in non-graduate employment and a lower rate of progression for graduates than was the situation ten years earlier.'

The Government has claimed that a degree can add more than £200,000 to a male graduate's salary over a lifetime compared with those who decided against university.

But the research found the claim 'does not reflect the evidence revealed here'.

It said the 'relative earnings advantage associated with a degree appears to have been declining slowly over the past decade, possibly by as much as two per cent per annum relative to average earnings in the economy'.

The report went on to warn that the decline in the earnings premium was not simply due to the recession, and was unlikely to bounce back up as the economy improves.

In further findings, students who got involved in teams, societies and clubs at university were more likely to have landed good jobs. The researchers found that employers are increasingly looking at extra-curricular activities when seeking to differentiate between a field brandishing mainly 2.1s.

Graduates with first-class degrees and those who attended high-ranking universities were also better off.

One of the most 'disturbing' findings, the researchers, said was that the pay gap between men and women was showing no sign of narrowing. Men earn about £2,000 more per year on average.

Graham Gooch's rubber mat helps England counter India's spinners

Pic-England coah in fieald.pic courtesy-guardian
sports reporter,mumbai(weastar times/guardian):::Twenty five years ago this last Monday, in the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, Graham Gooch played one of the most celebrated of limited-overs innings by an England batsman. He made 115 and it propelled the team into the final of the World Cup, much to the chagrin of the opponents and champions from 1983, India.

There was significance in it beyond the obvious, for to do so Gooch, not a habitual sweeper of spinners, had made a decision before his innings to sweep India's duo of left-arm bowlers, Maninder Singh and Ravi Shastri, into oblivion. It was singleminded, determined and successful: between them, the pair conceded 103 runs from their 20 overs and England went on to win by 35 runs.

So Gooch, England's batting coach, knows what he is talking about when addressing the demands of countering spin bowling in subcontinent conditions, something his charges are certain to come up against in the course of the four-Test series.

This is not something that, for all their training camps and good intentions, England batsmen are naturally good at countering. It seems to be missing from the genes. In the UAE at the start of the year they were disastrous, although, curiously, as Gooch points out, against the ball that did not really turn significantly but which skidded on low.

"That," Gooch said, "really was a worry at the time." In Sri Lanka, they came to terms with it in more orthodox circumstances and managed to win the second Test to draw the series. Now, at some point, they can expect to encounter the slow turners of legend, and in case they do not find practice facilities that replicate it, Gooch has brought with him a rubber mat from which the ball will spin sharply.

If the spotlight will fall on the players, the coaches will also feel the heat and, as much as anything, these next few weeks will be about how well Gooch is able to convey the message implicit in that Mumbai World Cup innings: that batsmen have to be adaptable, understand the demands, think it through beforehand, realise that there is not a one-size-fits-all approach to batting (or, as he stresses, coaching) and have the confidence to carry through a strategy.

"It is important that you are positive in outlook," Gooch said. "You need to defend resolutely and not be distracted by the noise going on around you. But then you have to find ways of scoring to keep the board moving and put the pressure on the opposition.

"In practice, I try to highlight the basics – play with the spin, do not commit yourself early, learn that there are periods of time where you just have to dig in and wait. The smart ones take these messages on board.

"It is not easy to develop our techniques in England where bland pitches and conditions in general mean that the ball does not spin. You need it to turn to learn, which is why I have the mat."

Although Gooch is at pains to stress the excellent facilities and decent opposition they have been afforded so far, he acknowledges that they have largely been kept away from good quality spinners in helpful conditions.

"I think we are aware of what is in store for us though," he said. "We will find some flat pitches and some that spin. And nothing alters the fact that beyond solid defence, we still have to be able to manoeuvre the ball into the gaps and to know when it is worth taking a risk to find the boundary and break up the bowling. Hopefully we are learning."

Meanwhile, England have confirmed that neither Stuart Broad nor Steven Finn will play in their final warmup match against Haryana that begins on Thursday.

Boris Johnson backs Lynton Crosby for Tory election role

political reporter,London(weastar times/guardian):::Boris Johnson has urged David Cameron to hire Lynton Crosby, the election strategist who helped him win two terms at City Hall, and give him a "free hand" to run the Conservatives' 2015 general election campaign.

The London mayor made the recommendation at a meeting of the influential 1922 committee of Conservative MPs in the House of Commons, where he offered tips about winning elections.

Riding high in the popularity stakes following his second triumph over Labour's Ken Livingstone(french how he become london mayor) !!!!in May, Johnson said he hoped the party would choose "the right campaign manager" for the next general election, before pausing and smiling to imply he was referring to Crosby.

Crosby was closely associated with the Conservatives' unsuccessful election campaign in 2005 when the then leader, Michael Howard, focused on crime and immigration, and he is seen as a potentially divisive figure for the coalition.

But Johnson said after the meeting that Crosby was "by no means as rightwing" as many people thought and the Tories should "break the piggy bank" to secure his services.

"I think Lynton is a great campaign manager. I think the Tory party would be mad not to get him," Johnson said. "They should kill the fatted calf, break the piggy bank, go for Lynton and give him a pretty free hand to run things. He would be demonised by the media as some sort of attack dog. He's the soul of sweetness. He's by no means as rightwing as everybody will say."

Johnson also backed Cameron as the "right prime minister" for the country, in an attempt to quell ongoing speculation that he harbours ambitions to replace Cameron in the future.

In his second address to the committee this year, Johnson said: "We are doing the right thing for the country, enacting once-in-a-generation reforms in education and welfare. We have the right prime minister in David Cameron [who is] first-rate, a world-class prime minister, as every poll confirms."

First NHS trust run entirely by private firm racks up £4m debt in just six months:::convicted margaret in this chair!!!!!

pic:::unqualified criminal convicted margaret who have vast complain about last 40 years...hold chair!!!!!!!! of this project

Health reporter,London:::(weastar times/daily mail):::The UK's first privately run NHS hospital generated a deficit more than twice as high than planned, it emerged today. 

Circle, the company in charge of Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust in Cambridgeshire, had projected that the Trust would be in a £1.9 million deficit after six months under its stewardship, but in September it reported a deficit of £4.1 million. 

The National Audit Office (NAO) said that while the private provider has made improvements in clinical areas a number of financial challenges remain. 

Circle began it's 10-year management franchise at the struggling Huntingdon-based hospital in February in what is seen as a potential model for other hospitals across the country. 

But the NAO said that before any more NHS hospitals are run by private providers, the Department of Health must do a 'lessons learned' exercise to make sure there are no weaknesses in the procurement process. 

David Moon, director of health value for money studies at the NAO said: 'There are potential other franchises, currently George Eliot in Nuneaton is under review by the Department as to how their management arrangements are going and this is one potential option. 

'But we believe that before any other franchises are entered into, the Department should do a lessons learned exercise to make sure that any weaknesses in the process are ironed out for any future tenders.' 

In a report about the franchising of Hinchingbrooke, the NAO said that during the procurement process, the East of England Strategic Health Authority assessed the reasonableness of the bidders' savings proposals but it did not fully consider the relative risks of the saving proposals. 

'This is a first for the NHS - the NHS hasn't done this before - so to an extent they were covering new ground,' said Mr Moon. 

'Moving forward, if they are to have to do this again they need to assess the risk of the bids in a more defined way.

'Both bidders, Circle and Serco, were asked to come up with a whole range of saving schemes to deliver a minimum of £228 million of savings over a 10-year period which they duly did. 

'While the schemes were evaluated for: 'Does this look a sensible scheme? And is it clinically safe? etc' they weren't evaluated to a financial level so they didn't check whether the level of savings that were going to materialise from those proposals were actually going to happen.

'Circle plans to achieve £311 million in savings over the 10-year contract. That is an unprecedented level of savings,' Mr Moon continued. 

'That's more than 5% a year which probably has not been done in the NHS to date.' 

In the past decade, the hospital has not made an annual surplus of more the £600,000, he added.

If Circle does not deliver a surplus, they get no franchise fee. But the first £2 million of any in-year surplus is retained by the private provider and any surplus above £2 million is split - some to pay off the Trust's historic deficit of £38 million and the rest to Circle. 

Margaret Hodge, chair of the Committee of Public Accounts, said she was 'astonished' that Circle takes profit ahead of addressing the hospital's deficit. 

She said: 'The purpose of franchising Hinchingbrooke hospital to a private company was to turn around the financial fortunes of a failing NHS Trust, yet after just eight months under Circle's stewardship, the Trust has drifted a further £4.1 million into the red. 

'Circle struck a 10-year deal under which it can earn £31 million if it can deliver unprecedented annual savings of more than 5%. 

'While there have been welcome clinical improvements since Circle took over, it is essential that pressure to make savings does not simply lead to cuts in services in the future. Safety and quality of care must always come first. 

'Before handing Circle the contract, the Strategic Health Authority failed to test properly whether the required savings are even achievable. 

'There is no clear and common view as to what would constitute a successful outcome or how that would be measured. 

'Above all, I am astonished that the contract allows Circle to pocket any profit ahead of addressing the Trust's deficit. Worse still, Circle suffers no penalty if at the end of the 10 years the deficit is not paid off in full. 

'Getting this deal right has huge implications for this hospital's sustainability and for the 160,000 members of the public it serves.' 

Amyas Morse, head of the NAO, added: 'While Circle has made early improvements in some clinical areas, the company will have to generate savings at an unprecedented level. 

'The final judgment on the value for money of the franchise will depend on how successfully Circle makes the projected savings and repays the cumulative deficit, while maintaining clinical quality. 

'This franchise agreement is the first of its kind in the NHS and it is important that lessons from this procurement process and early operational experience are used to improve future contracts.'

French origin Surgeon Ian Paterson 'botched 1,000 breast operations': Specialist suspended as police launch criminal investigation

Convicted french origin so called  surgon Ian Paterson: pic courtesy:daily mail(ENGLAND)

Hospital where surgon work::pic courtesy daily mail
pual betnely,health reporterEngland(weastar times/daily mail):::More than 1,000 women who were told they had breast cancer may have had botched or needless surgery, it emerged last night.

Surgeon Ian Paterson, who has been suspended from practising and faces a police investigation, is accused of operating on at least 450 women when they were perfectly healthy.

He also allegedly performed partial mastectomies on another 700 who did have cancer, using a technique which may have increased the likelihood of the disease returning. 

Last night one lawyer said it was the largest clinical negligence case she had known in 16 years. Paterson, a breast cancer specialist, worked at NHS and private hospitals across the Midlands from 1994 until he was suspended last month.

About 100 of his patients have launched claims for compensation, saying the operations should never have been performed. 

Grandmother Gail Boichat, 57, found out she had been misdiagnosed with breast cancer in February this year.  

She had been treated by Paterson in 1995 when he was working at the Good Hope NHS hospital in Sutton Coldfield.

He performed an operation known as a cleavage-sparing mastectomy. This leaves some breast tissue behind for cosmetic reasons and is not sanctioned in Britain because of the risk of the cancer returning. He also prescribed the strong cancer drug tamoxifen, which she said brought on early menopause.

In February, after the General Medical Council began to investigate Paterson’s professional history, she was recalled to hospital and told there was no evidence she had ever had breast cancer.

More than 1,000 women who were told they had breast cancer may have had botched or needless surgery, it emerged last night.

Surgeon Ian Paterson, who has been suspended from practising and faces a police investigation, is accused of operating on at least 450 women when they were perfectly healthy.

He also allegedly performed partial mastectomies on another 700 who did have cancer, using a technique which may have increased the likelihood of the disease returning. 

Last night one lawyer said it was the largest clinical negligence case she had known in 16 years. Paterson, a breast cancer specialist, worked at NHS and private hospitals across the Midlands from 1994 until he was suspended last month.

About 100 of his patients have launched claims for compensation, saying the operations should never have been performed. 

Grandmother Gail Boichat, 57, found out she had been misdiagnosed with breast cancer in February this year.  

She had been treated by Paterson in 1995 when he was working at the Good Hope NHS hospital in Sutton Coldfield.

He performed an operation known as a cleavage-sparing mastectomy. This leaves some breast tissue behind for cosmetic reasons and is not sanctioned in Britain because of the risk of the cancer returning. He also prescribed the strong cancer drug tamoxifen, which she said brought on early menopause.

In February, after the General Medical Council began to investigate Paterson’s professional history, she was recalled to hospital and told there was no evidence she had ever had breast cancer.

She said she wanted compensation and for Paterson to face criminal charges because ‘then I may get some closure. He punished me in some way and I think he should be punished’.

At least 100 of the female victims are being represented by legal firm Thompsons on a no-win, no-fee

Kashmir Uppal, national head of clinical negligence at the firm, accused Paterson of being a ‘rogue surgeon’, adding that the  allegations against him constituted the ‘largest scale’ clinical negligence case she had encountered in 16 years specialising in the field.

‘It’s the largest case that I’ve dealt with, with the number of women involved and the reasons he was doing this, which we just can’t establish,’ she said.

‘Clearly mistakes do happen in any clinical setting. Unfortunately, a midwife can misread a CTT trace, somebody will misread an X-ray, a GP won’t recognise signs of colorectal cancer... This is different.’

Paterson was suspended by the GMC last month and is scheduled to face a hearing on his fitness to practise next summer.

He was first investigated by Heart of England NHS Trust over the cleavage-sparing operations in 2004 but was not told to stop performing them until an internal investigation concluded in December 2007.

Seven hundred of the women he treated were then recalled to the hospital so they could have their conditions reviewed. It is unclear what motivation the surgeon may have had for allegedly performing the unnecessary surgeries.

Paterson, who is being represented by the Medical Defence Union, said: ‘I am co-operating fully with the GMC investigation and cannot comment on any of the issues raised because of my duty of patient confidentiality and the ongoing investigation.’

He worked at hospitals across the Midlands including the NHS’s Heartlands hospital, Solihull hospital, Sutton Coldfield’s Good Hope hospital and the private Spire Hospital Parkway and Spire Hospital Little Aston.

Paula Naylor, of Spire Parkway hospital, said: ‘We have referred this matter to the General Medical Council so they can investigate Mr Paterson’s fitness to practise but cannot speculate on the outcome.

‘Clearly we are looking at what we can learn from these events, but our priority right now is to hold consultations with those patients affected and to provide them with accurate information as quickly as possible.’

A GMC spokesman said: ‘Dr Ian Paterson’s registration is currently suspended, following an Interim Orders Panel meeting on 29 October 2012.

‘This means the doctor cannot work as we investigate concerns about his fitness to practise.’

Paterson is also accused of making false claims to health insurers, allegedly claiming for more expensive operations than he performed and for others that he had never carried out.

Two of the patients claim Paterson submitted claims to insurance companies for operations which were more expensive than the ones he actually performed.

West Midlands Police last night confirmed a criminal investigation had begun.

Detective Chief Inspector Matt Markham said: ‘A criminal inquiry has been launched and the force is working closely with the Crown Prosecution Service to determine the course of the investigation.’

Notable point:

****Ian Paterson suspended amid claims he removed non-cancerous lumps from 450 women who were healthy

****He also allegedly performed 700 'cleavage-saving' operations on women who had breast cancer, increasing the chance of condition returning

courtesy:daily mail&NHS

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