Top prosecutor's broadside at Police Scotland over length of time to probe 'butcher' surgeon The country’s top prosecutor has criticised Police Scotland for taking ‘far too long’ to investigate a surgeon accused of ‘butchering’ his patients in botched operations.
In a damning letter to lead campaigner Jules Rose, who had a tear duct removed by Eljamel instead of a brain tumour in 2013, the prosecutor said the investigation is a ‘unique case in Scottish legal history’ and ‘simply has not progressed as it should have’.
Victims alleged to have suffered at the hands of consultant neurologist Sam Eljamel between 1995 and his suspension in 2013 first reported him to police seven years ago.
She said: ‘I fully accept that you are profoundly concerned about the time that has now elapsed – seven years – between the first report to Operation Stringent and where the criminal investigation now sits.
The Lord Advocate explained it was ‘not unusual for the police to investigate cases, sometimes for some considerable time, to establish whether there is criminality’.
