Woman, 33, dies after suspected ‘Brazilian butt-lift’ surgery in UK


A mother of five has died after having a cosmetic procedure that is believed to have been a “Brazilian butt lift”.

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after Alice Webb, 33, died in Gloucester on Tuesday following surgery.

A since-deleted GoFundMe page set up by a family friend revealed she had undergone a “BBL” procedure, which increases the size and shape of a person’s bottom using fat transfers or filler, but that it had “gone wrong”.

Ms Webb worked as an advanced aesthetic practitioner at cosmetics clinic Crystal Clear in Wotton-under-Edge, a market town in Gloucestershire.

Police said they were called at 11.35pm on Monday to an address in Gloucester after a woman had “become unwell following a suspected cosmetic procedure”.

“She was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and died in the early hours of Tuesday morning,” a spokesman for Gloucestershire Constabulary said.

Two people have since been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and released on bail.

Dane Knight, Ms Webb’s partner, paid tribute to her online, saying: “Want to say a heartfelt thank you to all family and friends that were here for us at our time of need, including all of the kind messages sent to my children and myself.

“There was some very beautiful messages sent by some of your children that formed a start of a smile from the corner of my kids’ mouth.”

Another tribute on the GoFundMe page read: “Alice was beautiful inside and out with the biggest heart, her family was her world.”

Call for ban

Ashton Collins, the director of Save Face, which campaigns for patient safety in the cosmetics industry, said non-surgical BBL procedures should be banned in Britain.

“I am devastated to hear of Alice’s tragic passing,” she said. “We launched a campaign in December 2023 calling upon the Government to take urgent action to ban these procedures.

“We made it absolutely clear that without urgent intervention someone would die. It makes me incredibly sad and angry that today our fear has been confirmed.”

Ms Collins said that if the procedure was a BBL, Ms Webb would be the first person to have died after having one in Britain.

The spokesman for Gloucestershire Constabulary said: “Her next of kin and the coroner are aware. The woman’s family are being supported by specially trained officers.

“An investigation, led by the major crime investigation team, is ongoing. The two people who had been arrested have been released on police bail.”



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