Surgeon's wife guilty of fraud after faking breast cancer

A consultant surgeon and his wife have been found guilty of defrauding €700,000 from insurance companies through a false breast cancer claim.

Dr Emad Massoud (aged 52) and his wife Gehan Massoud (aged 45), a nurse, of Woodview, Brownstown, Ratoath, Co Meath were convicted by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.