Overview
- The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service issued an immediate erasure order for Dr Neil Hopper, with the tribunal finding he lacked insight into his conduct and posed a risk to patients.
- The tribunal decision on May 29, 2026 followed Hopper’s September conviction for two counts of fraud by false representation and three counts of possessing extreme pornographic images.
- Court and investigative evidence found Hopper froze his own legs with dry ice in April 2019 so they required below‑knee amputations, a self‑harm act motivated by an amputation fetish.
- Hopper obtained insurance payouts totalling about £466,653 by falsely claiming his amputations were caused by sepsis, and investigators presented a PayPal record showing a 20kg dry‑ice purchase days before his injuries.
- Investigators also found more than 5,000 messages and paid access linking Hopper to Marius Gustavson’s EunuchMaker site, a network that led to broader prosecutions and long prison sentences.