Man charged over 'plastic snowflake' body modification death of woman
A body modifier has been charged after a NSW woman who had a plastic snowflake implanted in her hand died of blood poisoning.
The 37-year-old man, who works as body modifier and tattooist on the Central Coast, was arrested at his Terrigal home on Monday and charged with manslaughter.
NSW Police say a 30-year-old client of his tattoo shop was found dead in her Toowoon Bay home by her seven-year-old daughter in mid-April.
The woman had a plastic snowflake implanted under the skin of her right hand in a surgical procedure three weeks before her death and later complained of complications, detectives allege.
A post-mortem examination revealed her cause of death as septicaemia, specifically an infected right hand.
A second woman also complained after going to the man’s business for a stomach procedure in November 2016. He’s been charged with grievous bodily harm in relation to that incident.
The man was charged earlier in 2018 with prohibition of female genital mutilation after he allegedly mutilated a woman by “burning the labia majora off the victim with a branding iron” sometime in 2016 at Newcastle West.
He was refused bail and will face Gosford Local Court on Tuesday.
With AAP
