A "monster" surgeon has been jailed for carrying out a raft of needless breast operations, leaving his victims scarred and disfigured.

Ian Paterson, who is originally from Glasgow, was convicted of 17 counts of wounding with intent and three counts of unlawful wounding against 10 patients last month.

Sentencing the surgeon, now of Altrincham, Greater Manchester, at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday, judge Jeremy Baker told him he was driven by his "own self-aggrandisement and the material rewards which it brought from your private practice".

The judge said: "You deliberately played upon their worst fears, either by inventing or deliberately exaggerating the risk that they would develop cancer, and thereby gained their trust and confidence to consent to the surgical procedures which you carried out upon them."

Paterson was handed 15 years for each count of wounding with intent and four years for each count of unlawful wounding, all to run concurrently.

Before hearing his sentence, his victims told the court how his crimes had left them in constant pain and struggling to trust medical professionals.

After sentencing, Pamela Jain, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said Paterson repeatedly abused his victims' trust over more than a decade.

She said: "He knew the procedures were not needed but carried on regardless, inflicting unlawful wounds on his patients.

"The impact of Paterson's actions on his victims has been devastating, from the unnecessary distress of undergoing procedures they did not need, to the scars that will always serve as a physical reminder of what their doctor, Ian Paterson, did to them."