playing god with people's lives — a breast cancer surgeon who carried out completely unnecessary operations is found guilty of wounding with intent. ian paterson operated on hundreds of people, convincing them they needed highly invasive, often life changing treatment, when they didn't. ifeel like i've been mutilated. all this was for nothing. all the scars i thought were there because they were a badge of honour, are now because he's mutilated me. the nhs has already paid out nearly £18 million to settle the cases of more than 250 patients convinced to have operations they didn't need. mr paterson hasn't shown any remorse for the terrible things he's done, and he's really damaged the trust that the public had in the health service and with some of our health professionals. concerns had first been raised about ian paterson more than 20 years ago. we'll be asking how he was able to continue operating for so long. also on the programme: police say they've foiled an active terrorist plot in north—west london.

a woman was shot during the armed raid. six people have been arrested. the uk economy slows. latest figures suggest consumers are reining back spending in the face of rising inflation. anthonyjoshua and vladimir klitschko square up, ahead of "the biggest fight in british boxing history". andy murray reaches the semifinal of the barcelona open, beating albert ramos—vinolas, who beat him in monte carlo last week. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a breast cancer surgeon has been found guilty of carrying out completely unnecessary but life

changing procedures at nhs and private hospitals in the west midlands. a jury convicted 59—year—old ian paterson of wounding with intent, after hearing how he had lied to patients and exaggerated or invented the risk of cancer to convince them to go under the knife. it's still not clear why he did it. the charges related to nine women and one man, but there are hundreds more victims. "tiflh t’ttttttez: this case centres on an extremely experienced surgeon who specialised in breast cancer. he told many patients that their test results showed the sinister - of cancer é fa ct é

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that is the way some of the patients have described his actions. i really do not know his true motivation. certainly financial motivation is something that has featured during the investigation and trial. unless he tells us what his motivation was that we will never know. during the trial the jury heard how ian paterson told patients they needed to have lumps or entire breasts removed, but expert witnesses told the court the risk was nonexistent or greatly exaggerated and that no reasonable surgeon would have acted in the way paterson did. one of those experts was professor philip drew who says she has been deeply affected by the evidence he examined. i can't understand it. it is distressing to even think about, that someone would deliberately mislead a patient and submit them to effectively a deforming surgery for no good reason. professor drew had previously met

paterson and said he seemed warm and credible and patients had called him wonderful. it made him think of another notorious doctor. shipman was bizarre. and paterson is bizarre in that they both were deliberately harming people and, again, you have to understand the whole mindset of the medical profession is that is so wrong it does not even occur to you it would happen. it is just so wrong. so i think both of them demonstrated some degree of almost psychopathic approach to care for their patients. this case revolved around paterson's work at two private hospitals in the west midlands. he also worked as a surgeon at the nhs solihull hospital, where he treated hundreds more patients. one

of his patients, francis perks, underwent a series of operations, including a mastectomy, all of them unnecessary. how including a mastectomy, all of them unnecessary. how can anyone including a mastectomy, all of them unnecessary. how can anyone in their right mind do that to people? ijust find it unbelievable. how he has made us all suffer, and people as well have lost their lives. it is pure evil to me, pure evil. well have lost their lives. it is pure evilto me, pure evil. paterson left court with his daughters after being granted bail before sentencing next month, but the man whom mutilated so many has been warned he is likely to face a prison sentence. ian paterson's youngest victim was just 16 when he first convinced her and her family that she needed surgery. 12 years later she's been left scarred and traumatised. our midlands correspondent sima kotecha has been speaking to her. i can't remember this, this must have been before i actually had any operations.

jade was just 16 when she found a large lump in her left breast. herfamily had private health insurance, so she was immediately referred to ian paterson. it wasn't anything scary, but it was big enough to warrant going out and he suggested that we get it out. months later, she found another lump in her right breast and again paterson told her it was best to have it removed. she said she believed every word he said. very charismatic, very friendly, made you feel really at ease and everything he said was said with such, kind of, justification that you felt like that, well, yes, obviously because mr paterson is saying it, so obviously that's what's going to happen. over a four—year period, the surgeon operated on herfour times after lumps kept reoccurring. but in 2011, doctors told her three out of those four operations had been unnecessary. she was devastated.

it's anger, it's sad, it's shock that you can't believe that a man of his kind of calibre had put somebody through something like that so unnecessarily. now that paterson's been found guilty of carrying out unnecessary operations on several other patients, jade hopes she can close this chapter of her life. do you think you can everforgive him for what he did? it would not be healthy to hold on to something like that, but i think that i'm always going to have the scars on my body, so every day when i get dressed the scars are there, i think that it will be easier to draw a line under it now it's all kind of done. jade edgington speaking to our correspondent sima kotecha. ian paterson's conviction came more than 20 years after concerns were first raised about his operating practices. he was suspended by one hospital as long ago as 1996, only to find employment with another nhs trust.

hugh pym has been looking at why he was allowed to go on operating for so long, and what lessons the nhs must learn. the heart of england nhs trust, which runs solihull hospital, was severely criticised over its handling of ian paterson and complaints against him. an official report highlighted poor performance, what it described as weak and indecisive leadership, and a culture of secrecy. sir ian kennedy, who carried out the review in 2013, told the bbc the nhs had many lessons to learn. there is a very significant need for training in leadership amongst senior executives, so that they can take on the powerful, charismatic, charming, apparently highly successful operator, and

address, with the right level of moral courage, what's going on. the kennedy review set out the timetable and a series of warnings and failings. in 1996, ian paterson was suspended by a previous employer but in 1998 he was appointed at the heart of england trust. in 2004, an internal report on his conduct was ignored. there were further warnings but it was not until 2011 that he was excluded by the trust, and 642 patients were recalled. the following year he was suspended by the regulator, the general medical council. the review author says there is a clear message for the boards of nhs trusts. they need to look at their culture to see whether it is interested and putting at the forefront the care of patients, rather than the care of the staff, looking after the buildings, managing the money. they are all

important but the most important is the patient. nhs procedures have been tightened, so that surgeons work in teams who can hold them to account with regular appraisals. but for private hospitals, it is not so clear, and one senior surgeon told me the private sector needed to do more. no matter what the quality of surgery more. no matter what the quality of surgery is in the private sector, there is much less observation going on and much less recording of detail than there is in the nhs. medical leaders argue there have been improvements in safety and transparency, but they acknowledge that stopping a rogue surgeon might ian paterson before patients are harmed is never straightforward. —— a rogue surgeon harmed is never straightforward. —— a rogue surgeon like ian paterson. police say they have thwarted an active terrorist plot, after an armed raid on a house in north—west london last night. one woman was shot and seriously injured. five others have been arrested. the metropolitan police say they are trying to contain a "growing number of threats".

daniel sandford reports. just before 7pm last night... gunshot masked armed police officers at a north london flat. gunshots firing cs gas canisters into the front window. i ran to my partner in the kitchen and was like, "quick, quick, "there's armed officers outside, armed officers". at that point you heard another bang, and another bang. video obtained by the sun shows some of those arrested in the flat being led away, and then a woman who was shot by police during the counter—terrorism raid being treated on the pavement. there was a woman brought out of the house. she was on the ground, face down, officers on top of her, ambulance officers around. she was screaming incredibly loud. it was quite awful. and the police were just saying, "if you could just stay still, we'll help you. "you just need to be still and we'll help you". police said the flat had been under observation in an investigation into a suspected plot against the uk. the armed entry was necessary due

to the nature of the intelligence we were dealing with, and involved armed officers firing cs gas into the address. during the course of that operation, one of the subjects, a woman, was shot by police. she remains in hospital. in all, six people were arrested, including one in kent. three women, two men, and a 16—year—old boy. and that doesn't include the woman in hospital, who'll be arrested once she's well enough. and the extraordinary events here last night came just a few hours after the arrest of a man in whitehall, just a few yards from downing street. he is khalid mohammed omar ali, the bbc exclusively revealed today. he is still being held on suspicion of terrorism and carrying knives. he is not linked to last night's arrests. khalid mohammed omar ali is 27. he is british but was born overseas, and went to school in tottenham, north london.

he was arrested after being stopped and searched in what police called an intelligence—led operation, which included a tip—off from family members. it is very difficult for the police and security services, as hard as they work, to keep ahead of the terrorist threat. they depend hugely on cooperation from the public. there are many cases in which the first leads have been given by the public and those leads have led to developed intelligence. that is the way in which terrorists are caught. this afternoon, police could be seen at a north london property linked to ali, where forensics officers were searching the garden. seven years ago, he was involved in a controversial convoy delivering aid to gaza. tonight, he's still in custody but has not yet been charged. it has been another incredibly busy week for scotland yard's counterterrorism command and showed the range of things they now have to

do, intelligence gathering, stopping subjects in the street with armed officers, raiding houses with gas masks, using cs gas and live weapons. if their intelligence is right, they stopped two attacks on the uk in two days that have ended with seven suspects in custody and an eighth in hospital. our top story this evening: a breast surgeon is facing a long prison sentence after being found guilty of carrying out a series of completely unnecessary and life—changing operations. coming up in sportsday on bbc news: snooker‘s world championship semi—finals are well under way — as last year's winner mark selby fights back to take a 9—7 lead against ding junhui. coming up in sportsday on bbc news: snooker‘s world championship semi—finals are well under way — as last year's winner mark selby fights back to take a 9—7 lead against ding junhui.

the uk economy slowed more than expected at the start of this year — with consumers tightening their belts in the face of rising inflation. figures from the office of national statistics show falling retail sales and a jump in living costs. the economy expanded by 0.3% from january to march. that's down from growth of 0.7% at the end of last year. our economics correspondent andy verity has the details. this sector is now bright spot of our economy — this shrewsbury—based manufacturer makes parts for cars. the drop in the value of pound before and after the brexit vote should have helped business a lot. because it is cheaper for foreign buyers paying dollars are euros to buyers paying dollars are euros to buy the parts. but new order are not growing as quickly. there are customer whs are saying let's wait

and see what happens with brexit and whether we can buy from the uk or europe and what we are saying it look, we will continue to invest and grow, what we need is a bit more commit frment the government to get the —— commitment from the government to get the deal done. the car makers could be investing more to meet demand, but their customers are consumers and spending there is slowing down. what is a matter of concern for businesses is if the consumer starts to give way, because of pressure from inflation and their ability to spend, that could hold back investment and be the beginning ofa back investment and be the beginning of a broader slow down. that message was not lost on the the politicians on the campaign trail, who each had their own take on the slow down. britain's economy is forecast to grow at 2% this year, employment is at record highs and is set to go higher. the british economy is

resilient. the figures are ominous and suggest the way the economy has been kept afloat since brexit with a lot of consumer spending and supported by credit, this is not sustainable. for years, consumer spending has been the motor of growth, but now we're hitting the brakes. interest rates are slow, but a problem has returned — prices again are going up faster than wages. a key measure of whether we are getting better off is the value of economy per person, also known as gdp per head that. dropped after the financial crisis and only recently got back above the 2008 level. it has grown by 0.1% this year. got back above the 2008 level. it has grown by 0.1% this yearlj got back above the 2008 level. it has grown by 0.1% this year. i think the gdp figures should be setting alarm bells ringing and it

underlines the importance of making sure there are voices there arguing for a common—sense outcome. sure there are voices there arguing for a common—sense outcomem sure there are voices there arguing for a common-sense outcome. it is shocking, because it comes on top of the figures around inflation going up the figures around inflation going up and earnings stagnating. i think it is worrying for the average household now. it shows you why theresa may has gone for this early election, because the economy is now on the turn. if you're an optimist the shift to manufacturing is welcome. a rebalancing the previous government tried to achieve. but that won't be much comfort who households whose income is shrinking. the isle of wight mp said he won't be standing a the election after he said a group of six formers that homosexuality was wrong. he

said it was time for a new generation to take on his role as an mp. ukip's leader paul nuttall has launched the party's election campaign, claiming that a big conservative majority will allow theresa may to backtrack on promises over brexit. mr nuttall promised ukip would fight the election with vigour, but he also said the party would stand aside in marginal constituencies where brexiteers were standing. here's our political correspondent alex forsyth. ukip area ukip are a nasty party. even their campaign launch was interrupted by members of the socialist party. the party leader said his policies are not racist and ukip still has a role. we go into this snap election determined to hold the government's feet to the fire on brexit. we will act as the government's backbone.- the last general election, ukip was riding high and shaping the debate

around immigration and the referendum. but this time, it is fighting to prove its relevance. in essex the party lost by a few thousand votes the last time. part industrial, most people backed brexit. does ukip still matter. they haven't put themselves around. i don't know the name of leader. without ukip we wouldn't have brexit. you think they have a role now. i think they have a major role. but this councillor has quit to join the tories, saying after brexit, ukip lost its way. there was so much fighting, we didn't look like we had a plan to atament. he -- adapt. he disagrees. we want to see cuts to immigration as do most people, we will be the only party to slashing the foreign aid budget to ensure

british taxpayers' money is spent on the nhs and we will go in where commitments to raise defence spending and to have more police office rs spending and to have more police officers on the streets. ukip has agreed not to stand against some candidates if they're committed to prebgt. ted to brexit. but me said —— brexit he said they will fight to add a national voice to the debate. it's being described as the biggest fight in british boxing history. tomorrow night, 90,000 people will fill wembley stadium to watch british heavyweight anthonyjoshua take on the ukrainian wladimir klitschko — the most decorated heavyweight of his era. yetjoshua — who only turned professional after the london olympics — is the favourite to win. natalie pirks is outside wembley stadium. boxing isn't a sport averse to hype. but once in a while a fight comes that transcends all the trash talk and the my honourable friendness. it

isa-- and the my honourable friendness. it is a —— and all the madness. with mutual represent evidence between the fighters, the noble art is finally living up to its name. one is the young world champion who has brought integrity back to boxing. the other is the elder states mavrn man. the tone has been more intelligent. obsession is love in an extreme shape. so it's basically, i'm in love with my goal. he is obsessed, he has got passion and he is in love. when i do defeat him, i wa nt is in love. when i do defeat him, i want people to say i faced the best man and a man come off defeat is the best man, because you learn from your mistakes so i'm looking forward to the challenge. with just 18 pro fights, anthony joshua to the challenge. with just 18 pro fights, anthonyjoshua concedes 14 yea rs of fights, anthonyjoshua concedes 14

years of experience to wladimir klitschko, a man whose camp he joined. anthonyjoshua went on to become a gold medallist himself. is wladimir klitschko too much too soon. wladimir klitschko too much too soon. plenty want to know the answer. the audience here will broke post war boxing records and the fight will be watched in more than 140 countries. the fight could generate up to £60 million, which would mean for anthonyjoshua that come sunday morning he could be £15 million richer. the world may well be watching, but anthonyjoshua's mum won't be. i have hit people before and i admire the shot, because i'm, i have the best seat in the house and that is why i don't wa nt the house and that is why i don't want my mum to be that close to seeing her son go through war. shes won't in your life? yes. let's keep

a smile on herface. i can't remember the last time i saw her worried. she might well be about to miss a career—ending fight for wladimir klitschko and a career—defining one for her son. time for a look at the weather. here's louise lear. you would be a brave person to wear your bathers this bank holiday. but there is a good deal of dry weather. it will feel warmer and there will be some rain, but most in glams on sunday. —— england and wales on sunday. —— england and wales on sunday. if you want to know how warm it is, these are the average bank holiday temperatures. on saturday a good deal of dry weather. this system arrives into the south west on sunday and it will bring some heavy rain in southern england and wales for a time. but it never moves

into scotland. so it could stay dry. back to the here and now and showers moves eastwards across the country through the night and it will be a quiet night. some patchy mist likely. not a cold night. frost—free first thing saturday and some spells of sunshine. a quiet start to the weekend. any showers will be isolated across northern ireland, south—west scotland and perhaps close to lake district. with a light breeze, temperatures will up to highs of 17 celsius. the breeze will pick up to the south and west and the rain will arrive saturday into sunday and some will be heavy in devon and cornwall and southern wales and moving to the midlands. further north and east some sunshine and some warmth and maybe sheltered north west scotland could see 17 degrees that. front weakens and

moves north and east and bank holiday mondays sunny spells. that's all from the bbc news at six, so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. this visit bbc news. our headlines. ian paterson is facing a long prison sentence after being convicted of 17 cou nts sentence after being convicted of 17 counts of wounding with intent after carrying out a series of unnecessary and life changing operations and patients. he is not shown any remorse for the terrible things he has done and has damaged the trust the public has in the health service and our health professionals. scotla nd and our health professionals. scotland yard believe the final act an active terrorist plot when they raided the house in north—west london yesterday. a woman was shot and six other people arrested.

new figures out today show britain's economic —— economic growth has slowed sharply, expanding byjust 0.3% in the first three months of the year. rex tillerson tells us security council meeting all options for responding to further provocation from north korea remain on the table. diplomatic and financial levers of power and will be backed up by a willingness to counteract north korean aggression with military action if necessary. the isle of white's conservative mp andrew turner announces he will not stand in the general election following reports he told the group of sixth formers homosexuality was wrong and dangerous to society. he has represented his constituency for 16 years. in a moment that will be time for sports day but let's just look at what else is coming up this

evening. president trump's speaks to the nra's annual convention in atla nta ta kes the nra's annual convention in atlanta takes place this evening on the eve of his 100th day in office and we will take that and live your lives onstage. we will bring you more background on breast surging ian paterson, who has been convicted of carrying out a number of unnecessary operations causing harm to his patients. and we find out what on the front pages of tomorrow's newspapers. up and we are going to go live to our correspondent who is in new york, waiting for ours, for donald trump

to speak to the national rifle association in atlanta. they were very big supporters of