Scrub nurse posed as top surgeon to con fifth wife and live a life of luxury

A nurse who lied about being a top surgeon kept a human hip joint as a coffee table ornament and told his fifth wife a fictional ‘Dr Foot’ could treat her bunions, a tribunal heard. Kevin O’Flanagan claimed he was an ‘orthopaedic practitioner’ when he was really a scrub nurse at the Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex. He allegedly concocted a web of lies and deceit between 2006 and March 2014, writing a bogus job offer letter to himself and…