New York Daily News

Phony doctor fled after fatal butt lift

- Shayna Jacobs

AN EX-CON posing as a doctor gave a woman a silicone butt lift then fled the state when he learned it killed her, prosecutor­s said Wednesday.

Kevin Richardson, 47, was hauled into Manhattan Supreme Court to face manslaught­er and unauthoriz­ed practice of a profession charges after the cosmetic procedure killed 31-year-old Latesha Bynum. Richardson also gave illegal injections to other women, authoritie­s said.

Richardson, with his fake nurse pal Allison Spence, 44, collected patients at their “waiting room,” a Dunkin’ Donuts in Gramercy near an apartment they used to see clients.

From there they went to a building on E. 21st St. near First Ave. where the pair allegedly injected customers with potentiall­y deadly butt fillers.

Bynum went to the hospital the night of her July 15 procedure complainin­g of dizziness and chest pains. She went into a coma and died about two weeks later.

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