Obese Hastings cannibal killer given NHS gastric band op (From The Argus)
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Obese Hastings cannibal killer given NHS gastric band op
1:10pm Monday 20th August 2012 in News By Neil Vowles
KILLER: Graham Fisher
A 23-stone cannibal killer is recovering in a private hospital bed after receiving a gastric band operation on the NHS.
Graham Fisher, 39, who killed two women in Hastings 14 years ago, has undergone the operation after ballooning in weight since his stay at high-security Broadmoor Hospital.
It is estimated that the cost of the killer’s operation and recuperation time is about £15,000. The killer was only on a waiting list for three months for the operation.
He is expected to recover over the next few days in an en suite room in a private hospital in Oxfordshire.
In 2010, he admitted strangling and setting on fire Clare Letchford and Beryl O’Connor in Hastings in 1998. He also cut flesh from 40-year-old Miss Letchford’s arm and ate it.
Fisher was initially jailed for five years after indecently assaulting two Spanish students at knifepoint in Eastbourne in 1998.
He was transferred to Broadmoor in 2001 under the Mental Health Act after he was found to be a “grave and immediate danger” if released into the community.
Miss Letchford’s mother Joyce, of St Leonards, recently told The Argus that the possibility that Fisher would be entitled to free surgery was “unbelievable”.
A spokeswoman for West London Mental Health NHS Trust, which has responsibility for Broadmoor, said: “People receiving treatment for mental illness are entitled to the same level of care as anyone else.”
The move has angered Portslade resident Rosemary Skinner who has waited more than five years for a “tummy tuck” operation but has been told by heath bosses her operation would be cosmetic and not vital.
She told The Argus yesterday: “It makes me angry to think that somebody like that can get one when I can’t.
“I can’t see why he needs it. I have a family and it’s very difficult, I have to rely on my kids.”
Comments(19)
rolivan
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2:05pm Mon 20 Aug 12
MuammarQaddafi
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2:37pm Mon 20 Aug 12
dhamallamafarmer
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3:00pm Mon 20 Aug 12
As far as poor Mrs Skinner & her drooping gut are concerned, there are probably other people in more need of cosmetic surgery than her, imagine the numbers of potential playboy bunnies cruelly afflicted with having to struggle through with their own boobs. These are the kind of people we want to see at the top of the list!
MikeyA
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3:28pm Mon 20 Aug 12
rolivan wrote:Two birds: one stone!
IF He needed Surgery that badly they should have put the Gastic Band on His throat.
Joshiman
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3:29pm Mon 20 Aug 12
MikeyA
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3:41pm Mon 20 Aug 12
rolivan wrote:Two birds: one stone!
IF He needed Surgery that badly they should have put the Gastic Band on His throat.
tooned_in
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3:45pm Mon 20 Aug 12
Mel@cityclean
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3:55pm Mon 20 Aug 12
Number Six
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4:07pm Mon 20 Aug 12
rolivan wrote:Executing the mentally sick now, are we? That should keep NHS waiting lists down
IF He needed Surgery that badly they should have put the Gastic Band on His throat.
Welcome to Saudia Arabia!
rolivan
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5:34pm Mon 20 Aug 12
Number Six wrote:Because one has a mental ilness doesn't give them the right to go around killing people.Think of the Victims Famillies.Was He diagnosed before He carried out the Crimes?
rolivan wrote:Executing the mentally sick now, are we? That should keep NHS waiting lists down
IF He needed Surgery that badly they should have put the Gastic Band on His throat.
Welcome to Saudia Arabia!
lachrymatory
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9:16pm Mon 20 Aug 12
Annumella
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9:58pm Mon 20 Aug 12
Annumella
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9:58pm Mon 20 Aug 12
Getaroundin
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6:57am Tue 21 Aug 12
Rosemary would do well to eat a little less and exercise some more and not rely on public funding!
Grendel
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9:43am Tue 21 Aug 12
rolivan wrote:One of the stupidest comments I have ever read on the Argus, and that's saying something. Not much going on upstairs, is there dear?
Number Six wrote:Because one has a mental ilness doesn't give them the right to go around killing people.Think of the Victims Famillies.Was He diagnosed before He carried out the Crimes?
rolivan wrote:Executing the mentally sick now, are we? That should keep NHS waiting lists down
IF He needed Surgery that badly they should have put the Gastic Band on His throat.
Welcome to Saudia Arabia!
Cory and Trevor
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9:56pm Tue 21 Aug 12
Mel@cityclean wrote:sounds like he eats a bit more than "three meals a day". They'd have done better to keep feeding him until he bursts seeing as he's a violent, murderous rapist. Might have been a quicker and cheaper death for him.
So he kills two women, and is rewarded by the tax payer paying for his life, three meals a day. And £15.000 for a needlless operation on a piece of excrement!!!!
Still, let's not forget his 'rights' eh right-ons.
Mr_Tom
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12:54pm Wed 22 Aug 12
why the hell should the already overburdened NHS have to deal with the consequences of you someone not able to stop stuffing themselves with crap?
Mr_Tom
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12:55pm Wed 22 Aug 12
The Masked Salmon says...
1:48pm Mon 20 Aug 12
"The move has angered Portslade resident Rosemary Skinner who has waited more than five years for a “tummy tuck” operation but has been told by heath bosses her operation would be cosmetic and not vital. "
Key words there being "cosmetic" and "not vital". And what on earth does the last out of context paragraph have to do with anything? It's difficult that she needs non-vital cosmetic surgery?