A surgeon who removed a woman’s tear duct instead of a brain tumour is to face a public inquiry.

Hundreds of people have come forward, including Jules Rose who has led a campaign by patients alleged to have been harmed by Sam Eljamel.

Ms Rose, a mother-of-two, previously accused NHS Tayside of ‘reaching the threshold of criminality’ while Eljamel was ‘armed with a scalpel’.

Eljamel was head of neurosurgery at NHS Tayside’s Ninewells Hospital in Dundee from 1995 until his suspension in December 2013.

Over this 18-year period he is alleged to have botched hundreds of operations, leaving some patients with life-changing injuries.

Following his suspension, Eljamel resigned in May 2014 and removed himself from the General Medical Register the following year.

Now the disgraced surgeon’s vi

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