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Burns specialist Peter Brooks cycled in camouflage through snow during Covid lockdown to stab Graeme Perks and douse his home in petrol, court told
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A plastic surgeon who stabbed a fellow doctor and tried to set fire to his home in a “murderous expedition” to get him “out of the way” has been jailed for life.
Peter Brooks, a 61-year old consultant specialising in burns and plastics, was jailed for a minimum of 22 years on Monday after attempting to murder his colleague Graeme Perks at his family’s home in the Nottinghamshire village of Halam.







