A British woman convicted of killing a US patient by giving her botched buttock-enhancement injections has been sentenced to a year in New York jail.<\/p>\n
Donna Francis had pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide for the 2015 death of Kelly Mayhew after she was extradited from the UK in August.<\/p>\n
Francis was given the maximum sentence allowed in the extradition agreement.<\/p>\n
“The phrase ‘getting away with murder’ certainly applies to you,” New York Judge Kenneth Holder said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“If you have a conscience, this is going to haunt you much longer than the one-year sentence you’re going to serve.”<\/p>\n
Francis, 39, who is originally from Loughton, Essex, was sentenced in the Queens Supreme Court in New York for causing the death of Mayhew in May 2015.<\/p>\n
At her sentencing, Francis was in tears, and said she regretted the incident.<\/p>\n
“It wasn’t my intention to hurt anyone,” she said. “I’m sorry for all the years this has been going on. I’m just sorry.”<\/p>\n
Mayhew and her mother had travelled to New York from Maryland to pay Francis – who has no medical licence – $1,600 (\u00a31,200) for a buttock enhancement procedure.<\/p>\n
Mayhew went into cardiac arrest after the botched silicone injections were administered in the basement of a house.<\/p>\n
Her brother, who read a statement on behalf of their mother in court, said Francis had refused to call 911 or provide an address to give first responders,\u00a0the New York Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mayhew eventually died from systemic silicone emboli, when the unencapsulated silicone entered her bloodstream and caused an embolism, the medical examiner found.<\/p>\n Prosecutors said Francis had left the dying woman and her mother and fled to London, where she remained until the extradition deal was reached this summer.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"