According to an inquest, a father committed himself because he couldn’t cope with the loss of his daughter, who died in Turkey in 2018 following a failed “Brazilian bum lift” procedure.
Three years after his daughter Leah, 29, died after the procedure went awry, Craig Cambridge, 51, was discovered hanging at his house in Leeds, West Yorkshire, in April of last year.
His life had “spiralled downwards” by that point.
He was never able to move on from the death of his daughter, according to an inquest into his death.
The coroner had promised to transmit the findings to the surgeon so that he would be aware of the “tentacles” of the tragedy.
In the years following the passing of his daughter, Mr. Cambridge also battled melancholy and alcoholism, the inquest heard.
The spouse of his daughter Chelsea Cambridge discovered his lifeless body in his home on April 5, 2017, according to evidence presented today at Wakefield Coroners Court.
His unfortunate demise occurred three years after his daughter passed away from a pulmonary embolism as a result of Dr. Ali Uckan accidently injecting fat into her veins at the Can Hastanesi Hospital in Izmir in August 2018.
While receiving the Brazilian bum lift at the facility, she suffered three heart attacks while lying on the operating table.
Kevin McLoughlin, a senior coroner who oversaw the inquests into Craig and Leah’s deaths, expressed his outrage that the surgeon had “stood well clear” of the occurrence.
Today, Mr. McLoughlin declared that the victim had committed suicide. He added, “I am dependent on the pathologist for the cause of death, which in this case is hanging.”
It was a suicide that was partially caused by the passing of his daughter, who passed away during surgery in Turkey.
And he declared that he plans to write to Dr. Ali Uckan and the Turkish medical authorities to inform them of the “tentacles” of suffering the failed surgery has caused.
‘Normally I am pretty distant and hard-hearted about inquests, but when I realised another tragedy had befallen your family, I felt rather awful,’ Mr. McLoughlin said today, speaking to Craig’s devastated daughters Chelsea and Hayley and his ex-partner Theresa Hall.
I was furious that the surgeon in Turkey got off easy after I presided over Leah’s inquest all those years ago.
“I’m suggesting that you send the report to the surgeon so that he is aware of the extent of this,” you say.
“I want to convey it to the Turkish medical authorities to let them know how a tragedy might present itself years later,” the author said.
“I feel terribly terrible for you as a family,” she said.
Craig, a former personal trainer, was reportedly discovered by his daughter Chelsea and her partner.
On Monday, April 5, they had gone to see him at his residence, but the door was locked; as a result, her partner had to climb via a window, where they tragically discovered Craig’s death.
Although paramedics were contacted, the ambulance team declared him dead at 7:50 p.m.
The court was informed that he left notes for both of his daughters expressing his intention to commit himself.
He received anti-depressants and was treated by a community mental health care team, according to information presented before the inquest.
Tragically, detectives discovered that he had unsuccessfully attempted to contact the doctors three times on the morning of his death because it was a bank holiday and they were closed.
According to what was heard, Craig had a history of anxiety and sadness, which were made worse by Leah’s passing.
He also developed an alcohol dependence after starting to drink.
In August 2018, his daughter Leah travelled by plane to the facility, which also claimed to have worked with UK TV stars Lauren Goodger, Amber Dowding, and Chloe Ferry.
The contentious method entails removing fat from various body parts and putting it again into the buttocks to improve their form.
At Leah’s inquest, it was revealed that Dr. Uckan had told her husband Scott, who had travelled to Turkey after learning of her passing, that the procedure “is a guessing game.”
At a 2019 inquest investigating Leah’s death, Mr. McLoughlin called the surgeon who performed the deadly procedure a “coward” for refusing to respond to her family’s inquiries.
Dr. Ali Uckan was asked to testify before the inquest eight times in writing, according to Mr. McLoughlin, but he never replied.