A celebrity plastic surgeon has been jailed for more than three years after two women died following botched buttock enlargement operations.
Dr Reza Samary, 50, was sentenced to three years and four months in prison yesterday at a court in Germany's western city of Dusseldorf.
He was found guilty and jailed for bodily harm which resulted in the death of two female patients.
The court heard how he took far more than the medically recommended amount of fluid and fat from the bodies of the two women who died.
The risk of complications rose dramatically when he reinjected the fat.
He also failed to offer a less invasive option - to split the serious surgery into two more gentle operations, the court heard.
Judge Rainer Drees said the victims were not adequately informed of the risks before going under the knife.
The judge said: "We rule out that the patients would have exposed themselves to the risk if they had known about alternatives to the two operations."
The two women, aged 20 and 42 at the time time of their deaths, died after the botched procedures, which took place in 2018 and 2019 respectively.
The plastic surgeon took far more fluid and body fat from the women than recommended and injected the fat again, the court said.
The bottom enlargement surgery is popular with celebrities, as it removes fat from undesirable areas like the tummy and moves it to the bottom to give it more volume and shape.
Reza Samary charged large fees and was a frequent poster on social media, often sharing videos of himself operating and including the before-and-after images of the beauty ops he carried out on his Instagram page.
A first incident took place on June 12, 2018, when the doctor is alleged to have removed six litres of liquid fat from an unnamed student at his 'Royal Center' clinic before injecting 2.2 litres of fat into both of her buttocks, according to German daily Bild.
She ended up in hospital and the indictment says that the amount of fat he sucked out of her was too much. She luckily survived.
But a woman named only as Maria K., 20, due to local privacy laws, died after the doctor allegedly removed 12 litres of liquid from her body on 6th August 2018. She had paid EUR 9,000 (GBP 7,766) for the operation but died of blood loss and a fat embolism.
Samary also operated on an unnamed 42-year-old woman on 2nd July 2019 and, according to the prosecutor, there was no anaesthesiologist present, which was allegedly a violation of the duty of care, and she died too.
Experts said that she also died of blood loss and of a fat embolism, according to German daily Bild.
The lawyer for the doctor had requested that his client be acquitted and moved to appeal the verdict.
