[QUOTE]FORMER patients of killer surgeon Jayant Patel have welcomed the seven-year jail sentence handed down by the Queensland Supreme Court.
But the politician who championed their cause has described it as ''totally inadequate''.
Patel, 60, was sentenced yesterday to seven years in jail over botched surgeries that left three of his patients dead and another without a bowel.
[QUOTE][IMG]http://images.smh.com.au/2010/07/01/1667674/jayant_patel1-420x0.jpg[/IMG]
Guilty ... Jayant Patel and his wife, Kishoree, arrive at Brisbane Supreme Court on Tuesday to hear the jury's verdict.
On Tuesday he was found guilty of three charges of manslaughter and one count of grievous bodily harm after a 14-week trial.[/QUOTE]
Patel was sentenced to seven years for each case of manslaughter and three years for grievous bodily harm, to be served concurrently.
Queensland law allows prisoners to apply for parole after they serve 50 per cent of their sentence. The earliest Patel can be freed is December 2013.
The president of the Bundaberg Hospital Patients Support Group, Beryl Crosby, said she was ''fine'' with the sentence.
''I have had contact from some of the patients straight away and they said they are happy with that too,'' Ms Crosby said.
''It was the guilty verdict we needed. The sentencing didn't bother us too much.''
However, Bundaberg MP Rob Messenger, who first raised concerns about Patel in state Parliament in March 2005, was less forgiving, saying the sentence was ''totally inadequate''.
''We'd been hoping for a decision that would restore our faith in the Queensland legal system,'' Mr Messenger said. ''The police did their job, the prosecutors did their job, the jury did their job and I'll leave it at that.''
Patel had previously practised in the US. The family of one of his patients there was stunned by the sentence and said they would campaign for American authorities to charge him on release.
''What? Oh, that's just wrong,'' said Sandrah Ickert, whose mother, Marie Mesecher, died after Patel operated on her in a hospital in Portland, Oregon in 1997 to remove a tumour.
''I'm not at all happy,'' she said.
Ms Ickert and her sister, Susan Harding, were hoping Queensland Supreme Court Justice John Byrne would sentence Patel to the maximum of life in jail.
Justice Byrne told Patel he could remain seated in the prisoner's dock as the sentence was read in Brisbane Supreme Court yesterday afternoon.
''In view of the verdicts of the jury, there is no denying the gravity of your offending [and] your repeated serious disregard for the welfare of the four patients,'' Justice Byrne said.
Patel had pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of James Phillips, 46, Gerry Kemps, 77, and Mervyn Morris, 75. He had also pleaded not guilty to the grievous bodily harm of Ian Vowles, whose healthy bowel he removed in October 2004.
Justice Byrne said the fatal operations and the harm done to Mr Vowles ''might so easily have been avoided''.
''Had you sought a second opinion on whether to proceed with the operations, the indications are that another surgeon would have advised against them all.''
Justice Byrne acknowledged prison would be difficult for Patel, as his family lives in America.
''Your family … will not be here to support you through the ordeal of imprisonment, except for an occasional visit,'' he said.
''Your notoriety will also make prison life stressful.''
Patel's wife, Kishoree Patel, did not comment to media as she left the court building.
His lawyers refused to say whether or not they would lodge an appeal.[/QUOTE]
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Finally, We've got this man behind bars
[quote]and another without a bowel.[/quote]
Shit, man.
Thread title made me think of this.
[IMG]http://www.destructoid.com/elephant//ul/17732-550x-medic.jpg[/IMG]
He saw Aphrodite, too?
[QUOTE=WeekendWarrior;23030292]Thread title made me think of this.
[IMG]http://www.destructoid.com/elephant//ul/17732-550x-medic.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I thought more along the lines of
[img]http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/Annababy4404/Steinman.jpg[/img]
Seven years?
Pfft, that's nothing.
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;23030338]I thought more along the lines of
[IMG]http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b267/Annababy4404/Steinman.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Hey, I got the reference in before you.
Seven Years? That's shorter than some burglary offenses.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;23030393]Seven Years? That's shorter than some burglary offenses.[/QUOTE]
He's in for malpractice and manslaughter, not straight up murder.
[quote]Patel was sentenced to seven years for [B]each[/B] case of manslaughter and three years for grievous bodily harm, to be served concurrently.[/quote]
Rate me bad reading if I'm wrong, but that's more than 7 years.
[QUOTE=Bulaba0;23030560]Rate me bad reading if I'm wrong, but that's more than 7 years.[/QUOTE]
7 years after it's all added up
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;23030424]He's in for malpractice and manslaughter, not straight up murder.[/QUOTE]
Burglary = Murder amirite?
[QUOTE=Helldoran;23034023]Burglary = Murder amirite?[/QUOTE]
No, you're not.
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;23030675]7 years after it's all added up[/QUOTE]
No he has four separate charges for which he is guilty (three of them sentence him to 7 years, the other 3), all of which are to be served [b]concurrently[/b]. That means he will serve 7 years.
[QUOTE=The golden;23035095]A similar doctor worked on my sister. (She has crohn's disease.)
He was roughly 5 or 10 minutes away from killing my sister, he destroyed about 2 other peoples bowels (so they had to be removed) and I think killed others beacuse he refused treatment. FYI: This was all done at a childrens hospital.[/QUOTE]
How do people like this pass Med School?!
[QUOTE=ThePutty;23030353]Seven years?
Pfft, that's nothing.[/QUOTE]
For the crime it isn't.
But in terms of time it fucking is.
Why don't we put you in a tiny house for 7 years. You can't leave, you eat what i say, and you do what I say.
[QUOTE=gerbile4;23045921]For the crime it isn't.
But in terms of time it fucking is.
Why don't we put you in a tiny house for 7 years. You can't leave, you eat what i say, and you do what I say.[/QUOTE]
And you get raped every few days by a man named Bubba.
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