Plastic surgeon Jonathan Peter Brooks responsible of making an attempt to kill colleague

A plastic surgeon who stabbed a colleague whom he “hated” after breaking into his home has been convicted of tried homicide.

Jonathan Peter Brooks, 61, was discovered responsible of two counts of tried homicide, one in all tried arson with intent to hazard life and one depend of possession of a bladed article.

A trial at a courtroom in Loughborough was advised Brooks wished Mr Perks, who was a witness in disciplinary hearings towards him, “out of the best way”.

Brooks was convicted greater than 4 years after the stabbing, in Halam, Nottinghamshire, within the early hours of 14 January 2021.

It might now be reported that Brooks was “voluntarily absent” from the trial, as a result of he was on starvation strike.

The courtroom heard Brooks received on his bike armed with a crowbar, cans of petrol, matches and a knife.

Mr Perks – who had not too long ago retired – was woken by the defendant breaking in by means of the conservatory and was stabbed after he initially mistook the defendant for his son Henry.

A surgeon who handled Mr Perks mentioned he had “a 95% probability of dying” when he arrived on the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham for remedy.

Mr Perks lived “due to fast motion and superb surgical ability”, the courtroom heard.