Lawsuit over fatal facelift surgery to begin

A MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR law case will open in a New York courtroom next Monday when the family of a Limerick woman who died as a result of botched plastic surgery begin an action against a disgraced surgeon.

Kay Cregan, aged 42, died on March 17, 2005, three days after undergoing a facelift at the Manhattan clinic of Dr Michael Sachs in Central Park South.

Shortly after the operation, Mrs Cregan collapsed and was rushed to the nearby St Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital where she was placed on a life-support machine.