Hong Kong banker Botox fatality: autopsy fails to find cause of death, toxicology tests needed
- Julius Baer banker collapsed on Sunday at Tsim Sha Tsui beauty clinic
- Death is thought to be city’s first Botox-related fatality
Toxicology tests will be required after an autopsy failed to determine the cause of death for a top banker who received Botox injections at a Hong Kong beauty clinic.
Police said a postmortem examination carried out on the body of Zoe Cheung Shuk-ling, 52, had been inconclusive. Cheung’s death on Monday is thought to be the first Botox-related fatality in the city.
The managing director of Swiss private bank Julius Baer was certified dead at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei after collapsing on Sunday at a clinic run by 86-year-old Dr Franklin Li Wang-pong in Tsim Sha Tsui.
According to a police source, the doctor initially told officers that Cheung had visited his clinic about her asthma without an appointment, and that she collapsed after taking medication.
But Li later admitted that Cheung had come for a Botox appointment and said she had suddenly passed out after receiving the injections.
Police found what they called “dangerous drugs” at the clinic, and said the facility had not kept any record of the quantities it held, as required by law.