A doctor was jailed for six years on Monday (Oct 4) for manslaughter over a fatal liposuction procedure at a Hong Kong beauty centre in 2014. Dr Vanessa Kwan Hau-chi, 38, is the third doctor in five years to go to prison for manslaughter by gross negligence relating to a botched beauty treatment, though the industry offering such services has.
A Hong Kong doctor has been slammed in court for not showing an “iota of remorse” for her gross negligence, which resulted in the death of a patient at a beauty clinic seven years ago. Madam Justice Susana D’Almada Remedios on Friday observed there was no mention of guilt or regret in the mitigation submissions filed by lawyers for Dr.
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The boyfriend of a Hong Kong woman who died after a liposuction treatment seven years ago has said a nurse told him there was “nothing” wrong moments before paramedics carried his girlfriend out of the operating theatre on a stretcher.
Chu Chun-wah testified on Tuesday to accompanying dance instructor Josephine Lee Kar-ying, 32, to receive her second liposuction on June 26, 2014 as she was “happy with the first one” and wanted to lose more weight.
The High Court heard Chu waited outside the operating room with their daughter, who was then just over eight months old, from 11am.