A British doctor was sentenced to nearly 2 1/2 years behind bars for insurance fraud after claiming his legs were lost due to sepsis — when he actually forced the amputations for sexual gratification, officials said Thursday.

Andrew Neil Hopper, a 49-year-old vascular surgeon at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud by false representation and three counts of possession of extreme pornographic images, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said .

He was sentenced to 32 months in prison by a Truro Crown Courtjudge and remanded into custody.

Hopper "fraudulently claimed over £466,000 (about $630,000) in insurance payouts" after "he claimed the injuries to his limbs were the result of sepsis," prosecutors said.

But in reality, Hopper had been packing his legs

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