Jie Shao has been jailed for manslaughter. Chinese national Jie Shao has been jailed for manslaughter after performing illegal breast augmentation surgery in Sydney in A Chinese national who performed illegal and fatal breast augmentation surgery will spend at least another two-and-a-half years behind bars.
Jie Shao was convicted of manslaughter earlier this year when a Sydney jury found she unlawfully injected a woman with a lethal dosage of anaesthetic. Jean Huang , 35, died in the September procedure that involved hyaluronic acid being injected into her breasts as filler.
Huang was taken to hospital but was ultimately declared brain dead and her life support was turned off. Judge Gartelmann found the evidence presented at trial showed she did not know the appropriate amount of lidocaine to inject into a patient, nor the signs of when a person is overdosing on the local anaesthetic.
Expert toxicologists throughout the trial each found she injected Huang with around 10 times the safe amount of lidocaine when compared with her body weight. Shao continued injecting Huang despite her showing signs of having a seizure related to an overdose, the judge said. The procedure, which Shao performed at the Medi Beauty Clinic at Chippendale, in inner-city Sydney, was not approved in Australia at the time.
Shao had pleaded guilty to an alternate charge - recklessly administering a poison endangering life - which Judge Gartelmann found showed she had taken a degree of responsibility for the death. Judge Gartelmann found Shao was very unlikely to reoffend and had experienced major depression and anxiety while waiting for her case to be heard.
