Rape. The secretary general of the United Nations has described the humanitarian crisis facing them as catastrophic. Would you like a paper bag with that . That would be great. We speak to the Booker Prize Nominated author who also happens to work in a book shop. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. A £37 Million Pound fund has been established for victims of the breast surgeon ian paterson, who duped his patients into unnecessary operations, including mastectomies. He was convicted of 20 offences in april. He is serving 20 years injail. The bulk of the fund will come from spire health care, which runs the private hospitals in which many of the operations took place. Its thought that more than 700 women might have a claim. Sima kotecha has the story. Breast surgeon ian paterson, jailed for 20 years after carrying out hundreds of unnecessary operations. Here are the faces of some of his victims. Now, more than 700 of them will get compensation from a pot amounting to £37 million. One
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