Hong Kong doctor jailed for 3½ years after woman died in city’s worst beauty treatment blunder


HONG KONG, Dec 13 (SCMP): A doctor found guilty of killing a woman through gross negligence in Hong Kong’s worst beauty treatment blunder has been jailed for 3½ years.

Madam Justice Judianna Barnes said Dr Mak Wan-ling had failed to exercise independent judgment, despite her role as a doctor on “the last line of defence in this money-grabbing venture” her employer had introduced to a network of 38 beauty centres under DR Group in 2012.

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