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Surgeon who tried to murder colleague sentenced to life

A plastic surgeon convicted of attempting to murder one of his colleagues to stop him testifying in a disciplinary hearing against him has been sentenced to life.

In 2021, Dr Jonathan Peter Brooks had cycled in the middle of the night to the house of Dr Graeme Perks, a senior colleague at the Nottingham City Hospital in England.