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‘I KNEW HE WAS GUILTY!’

THEY turned to him out of desperation. All three hoped that by going under the plastic surgeon’s knife they’d at last feel comfortable in their own bodies – but instead of helping them, Dr Luke Gordon scarred them for life.

Nine years after her surgery, Myrna Bothma still shudders when she looks at her “butchered” breasts and severely scarred stomach.

Tanya Haumann says she feels as if she’s “less of a woman” because of what the surgeon did to her.

And Heugene Murray’s encounter with the doctor cost him his leg, marriage and career as a professional bodybuilder.

The trio were among the 14 people who filed complaints against the plastic surgeon from

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