Shaun Wilson Sun, May 31, 2026 at 9:47 p.m. UTC 3 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vascular surgeon Neil Hopper (BBC) (PA Media) A doctor who froze his own legs with dry ice as part of a sexual fetish has been struck off the medical register by a tribunal. Neil Hopper, 50, was a consultant vascular surgeon at Treliske Hospital in Truro, Cornwall, when he was jailed for 32 months in September last year over a bizarre fraud worth over £466,000.