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| Plastic surgeon jailed for life over attempted murder of fellow doctor | Plastic surgeon jailed for life over attempted murder of fellow doctor |
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| Peter Brooks, 61, doused petrol on floor of Graeme Perks’s Nottinghamshire home before stabbing him in abdomen | Peter Brooks, 61, doused petrol on floor of Graeme Perks’s Nottinghamshire home before stabbing him in abdomen |
| A plastic surgeon who attempted to murder a colleague he “hated” has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years. | A plastic surgeon who attempted to murder a colleague he “hated” has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years. |
| Jonathan Peter Brooks, 61, known as Peter, who specialised in treating burn scars, broke into the Nottinghamshire home of Graeme Perks in the middle of the night on 14 January 2021 wearing camouflage gear and doused the floor with petrol with the intention of setting it alight. | Jonathan Peter Brooks, 61, known as Peter, who specialised in treating burn scars, broke into the Nottinghamshire home of Graeme Perks in the middle of the night on 14 January 2021 wearing camouflage gear and doused the floor with petrol with the intention of setting it alight. |
| After being disturbed by Perks, who was a witness in a disciplinary hearing against him, Brooks stabbed the “highly respected” fellow surgeon in the abdomen. | After being disturbed by Perks, who was a witness in a disciplinary hearing against him, Brooks stabbed the “highly respected” fellow surgeon in the abdomen. |
| Brooks was convicted of two counts of attempted murder, one of attempted arson with intent to endanger life and one count of possession of a bladed article, on 7 April after a four-week trial at Leicester crown court, sitting in Loughborough. | Brooks was convicted of two counts of attempted murder, one of attempted arson with intent to endanger life and one count of possession of a bladed article, on 7 April after a four-week trial at Leicester crown court, sitting in Loughborough. |
| Jailing him at Leicester crown court, sitting in Loughborough, on Monday, Mr Justice Pepperall said Brooks had committed “appalling” crimes after setting off from his home on a “murderous expedition”. | |
| Brooks, who was “voluntarily absent” from his month-long trial because he was on hunger strike and said he would “rather be dead than incarcerated”, did not appear in person for the sentencing hearing after refusing to leave his cell. | |
| Stephen Leslie KC, defending, said Brooks had said he was too unwell to make the journey to court and instead listened to proceedings via video link from HMP Norwich. | |
| Pepperall previously told the court that on “no fewer than eight occasions” since 2021, Brooks, formerly of Landseer Road, Southwell, had “used hunger strikes or the threat of some other self-harm to achieve some advantage”. |