Mr Hallam had long called for the hand to be removed
The world's first hand transplant patient has had the limb amputated after appealing to surgeons to cut it off.
He said it was like a dead man's hand with no feeling in it.
The hand was removed at a hospital in London on Saturday using delicate microsurgery.
On the eve of the operation, New Zealander Clint Hallam, 50, who received the new hand in a ground-breaking operation in 1998, told the BBC that his body and mind had said "enough is enough".
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