The husband of a woman who died after gross medical negligence at a private clinic, has received £260,000 in damages.
The 50 year old man sued the plastic surgeon following the loss of his wife of 15 years, after a “tummy tuck” cosmetic operation.
He said as a result of the death he gave up his £39,000-a-year job as a self-employed builder to care for the couple’s daughter.
His 36 year old wife died in 1999 after undergoing an abdominoplasty at the Highgate Hospital, London.
The High Court, sitting in Bristol, heard that complications developed and she slipped into a coma.
Two days after the £5,500 operation she had to be moved to the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, where she died a day later.
Awarding the compensation claim damages, Judge Paul Darlow said: “There were devastating post-operative complications as a result of which her life was taken away at the age of 36.”
After the hearing her husband stated: “This is the end of a terrible episode for my family.”
His injury lawyers added: “This operation should not have gone ahead at all. But because the medics failed to note the important warning signs, they proceeded and she died.”
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