Joy
Williams, who was aged 24, and from Thamesmead, south-east London, died
following a botched procedure that went wrong. Joy was said to have
been undergoing buttock augmentation by an allegedly uncertified surgeon
in Bangkok when tragedy struck.
According to our source, Joy
had made the ill-fated journey to Thailand without informing her
parents. She was the eldest and only daughter of her family.
Speaking
yesterday from his home in Lagos, Nigeria to Mail Online, Miss
Williams's older brother Anietie, 28, said he had been looking forward
to her visiting him in Nigeria this Christmas. He said: '
We don't really know what went wrong, we only know what is in reports in the media.
'She
was a very nice and caring person. 'She brought joy to people's lives.
'She was a beautiful girl, loved by everybody. We will miss her so
much.'
He added that the family were still making
preparations to bring Miss Williams's body home and that his brother was
planning to fly to Thailand and return to London with it. Miss
Williams, who was born in Lagos, settled in Thamesmead with her mother
Christie in 2007 and had been to Thailand twice before choosing to visit
for surgery.
She initially visitied to the SP clinic, which she
found on the internet, on October 14 to have the operation which she
hoped would give her a bigger, fuller bottom.
A few days later her wounds became infected and she returned to have corrective surgery to remove the silicon implants.
But
she was found dead on the operating table with a three inch-long
stitched incision on her tail bone after medical staff found they were
unable to resuscitate her. Thai officials investigating her death
believe her operation had been delayed to ensure Miss Williams had not
eaten anything beforehand and that as a result the operation began after
the clinic's legal closing time of 7pm.
It is believed Miss
Williams had long struggled with her self-esteem and been bullied at
school before choosing to undergo an operation on her nose to improve
her looks. While in Bangkok she had been staying at the £11-a-night
Vabua Asotel hotel which is used by the clinic as accommodation for its
patients.
The doctor who carried out the procedure, Sompob
Sansiri, 51, was later arrested and accused of negligence after it was
found that he had been carrying out night-time surgery without a
licence. He has now been charged with recklessness causing death and
could face 10 years in jail if found guilty. The clinic has been closed
for 60 days while investigations are carried out. Thailand is a
world-leader in cosmetic surgery tourism with many companies offering
procedures at discounts of up to 60 per cent.
The industry earned the country £2.68billion in 2013 alone.
If
you will recall a similar incident happened 2 yrs ago also with a
Nigerian girl who went to Philadelphia and died in the process of this
butt augmentation by a fake doctor.
Claudia
Aderotimi, 20, died after suffering medical complications following the
treatment, which she received in a hotel room in America. Her former
boyfriend, Paul Djimo said the aspiring dancer and model had undergone a
similar procedure just months earlier and swore never to do so again
due to the pain from the process.
It is truly
heartbreaking that such a young, vibrant, beautiful girl would put her
life at such great risks for such an unnecessary process. It is such a
shame that young women in our society still feel the need to fit a
certain bill' to feel beautiful.
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