The inquest into the death of a mother-of-five who died after undergoing a Brazilian butt lift (BBL) is likely to take place later this year.…....
Alice Webb, 33, died in September 2024 after receiving the BBL procedure at a salon in Gloucester.
A pre-inquest review at Gloucestershire Coroner’s Court heard that the man who carried out the procedure, Jordan Parke, has himself since died.
Ms Webb, from Wotton-under-Edge, had fallen ill following the cosmetic treatment and was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital where she later died.
Police launched a criminal investigation and a man and woman were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
The woman was later released without charge, and the investigation was continuing until Mr Parke – dubbed the “British Lip King” – died in February this year.
It is believed he may have been undergoing a cosmetic procedure prior to his death in Canary Wharf, London.
Mr Parke had appeared on television shows including ITV’s This Morning to discuss cosmetic surgery he had previously undergone.
Katy Skerrett, senior coroner for Gloucestershire, said a full inquest would take place in the autumn and would last around three days.
Laura Collignon, representing Ms Webb’s family, submitted to the coroner that the inquest should take place in front of a jury because her death was workplace related.
“From speaking to the family, but also from looking through the records from your office, Alice was engaged in some training because she undertook these sorts of procedures herself,” she said. “She was not only there having a procedure, she was being trained in a procedure, and that seems to me to be a workplace matter, and therefore a workplace fatality, and that would be notifiable. That would mean that a jury would be required.”
In reply, the coroner said: “My initial view is that Alice was a self-employed practitioner and she was being shown how to do a procedure at a friend’s house.
“I think you could probably argue it either way. I’m content that it should be in front of a jury.”
Ms Skerrett said the inquest would hear evidence from police, a pathologist, as well the woman who ran the salon, Jemma Pawlyszyn, and another person who was present before Ms Webb fell ill.
“There were some other people who were present and you will probably be aware that Jordan Parke himself has died,” Miss Collignon said. “He’s the person who carried out the procedure, but there were two women who were present.
