Brit lady dies getting a ‘mummy MOT’ in Turkey – medics gave sister money refund

A woman has died after flying to Turkey for a “mummy MOT”. Mum-of-two Kaydell Brown, 38, forked out £5,400 for a triple cosmetic surgery whammy of a tummy tuck, boob job and Brazilian butt lift.

Her sister Leanne, 40, was set for the same work in Istanbul until medics revealed Kaydell had died and simply handed over a wad of cash stuffed into an envelope as a refund.

The clinic had also taken the liberty of buying Leanne a flight back to the UK. “It’s like, ‘Sorry she’s dead, here’s your plane ticket’,” Leanne told ITV News. She slammed the Istanbul clinic as a “pop-up butcher shop that needs shutting down”.

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Leanne said: “She thought the ‘mummy MOT’ would give her a confidence boost and get her back on track.”

The sisters saved for the same surgery at the clinic in Istanbul with £5,400 each covering the procedure, flights and accommodation, The Mirror reports.

Kaydell went into theatre at ClinicExpert and was expected to be be out after five hours. But 10 hours later, at 7.20pm, the surgery she thought would change her life had claimed it.

Leanne told ITV: “They told me that evening that she didn’t make it. I couldn’t believe it. They started trying to say, ‘You know there are complications with surgery’, and I said, ‘Has my sister died?’. And he said, ‘I’m sorry but yes’.

“They passed me an envelope and said, ‘This is your money back and this is your sister’s money back and this is your flight’.” Leanne said she was refused permission to see her sister’s body.

Kaydell’s body was returned to Britain three days later, with parts of her heart missing. An inquest into the death was opened in Sheffield on Friday.

“When they returned her body, they kept pieces of her heart and her intestines.” When approached by the Mirror and ITV about Kaydell’s death, clinic bosses said the “cause can only be identified by the coroner’s office” but their “deduction” pointed to a “fat emboli blocking a lung blood vessel”.

They said this is a globally accepted complication in liposuction surgery. They added: “Complications are [the] undesirable and unexpected result of an operation… They are not malpractices. We are very sad for Kaydell’s loss, but we also have nothing we need to hide.” When asked why portions of her organs were missing, they said the body was handed over “untouched”, adding: “A government doctor examined the body at our operation theatre and identified no missing organs.”

The firm added: “ClinicExpert has been performing aesthetic surgeries for Turkish and international patients [for] 13 years. “It performed slightly over 23,000 aesthetic surgeries. Unfortunately, we lost two aesthetic surgery patients in 13 years. Two is a very big number for us, and for the loved ones of patients. But two over 23,000 is 0.000087 mortality rate. This rate is far below the international averages in most developed countries and most advanced hospitals. Our medical director and medical board reviewed the case. We didn’t conclude any malpractice in Kaydell’s loss.”

The report is due to air at 6.30pm on Monday as part of the ITV News bulletins and will be available on ITVX.

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