MUM DIES AFTER FREEBIE BUM LIFT
Grieving husband warns against heading abroad for cheap cosmetic ops
THE husband of Britain’s first Brazilian bum lift victim yesterday urged other women not to travel overseas for the controversial op.
Teaching assistant Tryce Harry, 49, went into cardiac arrest after going with husband Kirk to a Hungarian clinic for plastic surgery in March.
Kirk said after an inquest into her death: “We had no fear. We thought we had found the perfect place.”
Mum-of-two Tryce paid 5,300 euros (£4,700) for a tummy tuck and breast lift and was offered the bum lift as a “freebie” by Dr Miklos Molnar, a plastic surgeon with 24 years of medical experience, the inquest heard.
Experts have warned it is the deadliest form of cosmetic surgery that can currently be legally carried out.
The inquest heard fat was removed from Tryce’s inner thighs and then re-injected into her buttocks during a five-hour procedure at the Human Reproduction Institute in Budapest.
She survived the surgery but went into cardiac arrest on a recovery ward and died an hour later. Kirk only discovered “the love of his life” had died three hours later, when the surgeon rang him in tears.
Dr Molnar refunded the fee and paid for the repatriation of Tryce’s body after she died, the inquest heard.
The cause of death was recorded at the Birmingham hearing as a fat embolism linked to liposuction fat transfer.
Birmingham and Solihull Coroner Emma Brown ruled medical neglect did not play a part in Tryce’s death.
She concluded Tryce, from Hockley, Birmingham, died as a result of complications of elective surgery.
Grieving Kirk, Tryce’s partner of 27 years, said in a statement: “I’d advise anyone considering this procedure to have it done in this country where medical practices are expected to be better. One can’t put a price on life.”
Lawyer Isabel Bathurst, of Slater and Gordon, said: “[Overseas] clinics may have the expertise to perform these procedures but not always a plan in place for if something goes wrong.” Lawyer Isabel Bathurst