By our correspondent
Brisbane: Dr. Jayant Patel, 60, was today sentenced to seven years jail term for manslaughter for killing three of his patients and harming another.
He was earlier convicted by a Brisbane Supreme Court jury. The surgeries by the Indian educated and American trained doctor were conducted between 2003 and 2005 when Dr. Patel was the Head of Surgery at the Bunderberg base Hospital in Queensland.
Dr. Patel, had pleaded not guilty and his defence had said that all the surgeries were conducted with the consent of the patients.
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