Hong Kong doctor and technician guilty of manslaughter over death at beauty centre from unproven cancer treatment
Patient Chan Yuen-lam died after undergoing experimental therapy clinic deemed had anti-ageing benefits, but which left her with bacterial levels ‘only seen in terminally ill Aids patients’
A doctor and a technician have been found guilty of manslaughter after using an experimental cancer therapy that killed a woman, in the worst beauty treatment blunder Hong Kong has ever seen.
The dead woman’s husband, Yeung Kam-hoi, burst into tears upon hearing the verdicts on Tuesday.
“At least there was justice,” he said. But he added he would never forgive the trio who stood trial for the blunders.
Clinic owner Dr Stephen Chow Heung-wing, 63, technician Chan Kwun-chung, 32, and Dr Mak Wan-ling, 35, had each denied one count of manslaughter, an offence punishable by life imprisonment.
A jury of six men and three women on Tuesday sided with prosecutors in finding Chow and Chan should be criminally punished over the death of Chan Yuen-lam, 46, on October 10, 2012. The verdict on Chow was unanimous, while the jurors decided on Chan’s fate by a ratio of 7:2.
