Former obstetrician and gynaecologist Graeme Stephen REEVES, who was convicted for maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on one of his patients by removing her clitoris, has an appeal against his sentence upheld.

REEVES, 63, was sentenced to three and a half years jail after being found guilty of removing a woman’s vulva, labia and clitoris without her consent during an operation in Bega, southern country town of New South Wales, in August 2002.

He was also found guilty of indecently assaulting two others and sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

On appeal by the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions, his sentence was increased by 18 months.

REEVES appealed against the conviction and sentence to the High Court of Australia, Canberra.

Today the court unanimously dismissed his appeal against his conviction but upheld his appeal against his sentence and referred it to the Criminal Court of Appeal.

In the judgment it says the appeal court did not consider REEVES’ deteriorating health and that his non-parole period was about to expire.

MEAG COMMENT:  Who cares about HIS health!  What about the victims he butchered for years?  Take note all his legal defences and applications to appeal have been funded by Legal Aid, i.e. the taxpayer.  Outrageous considering his victims could not obtain Legal Aid to sue him for malpractice.