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Article: Open wide: Murky past of mercy-dash dentist.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 26, 2004
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Byline: CHRIS BROOKE
WHEN Dutchwoman Aria Van Drie came along to fill the cavity in Scarborough's NHS dental service, the welcome was overwhelming.
Three thousand patients in three days thronged the streets waiting to sign up with her new practice.
Yesterday, however, the dentist's status as toast of the Yorkshire coast was in severe jeopardy after some unwelcome news about her recent past emerged like a nagging toothache.
The 60-year-old was convicted in Holland in May last year of involvement in a kidnap plot against another dentist, it has been revealed. And the Dutch court was told she had been forced to sell her practice in The ...