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'Body Worlds' Creator Performs Public Autopsy
A controversial German professor treated an audience of 500 to a particularly gruesome sight in a London brewery on Wednesday evening: an autopsy.
Defying British authorities, Gunther von Hagens dissected the corpse of a 72-year-old man on Wednesday -- the first public autopsy in Britain in 170 years.
Gunther von hagens dissection
Police still haven't decided whether it was illegal.
"This is a democratic country and I'm sure there will be no arrest," the professor told the media before the dissection.
Von Hagens believes he found a loophole that will protect him from legal action.
British law requires licensing for medical school dissections but not for post mortems. The doctor neither had permission to perform autopsies in Britain, nor was the venue -- a brewery in London's East End -- licensed for the practice.
If convicted von Hagens could be sentenced to three months in prison.
"We will review the evidence and see if any offence has been committed," a Londo