Hong Kong prosecutors have dropped 21 charges against a 93-year-old plastic surgeon over a fatal botox injection in 2018, citing an earlier court ruling that he was unfit to stand trial because of dementia.
Prosecutors told Kowloon City Court on Monday that they would withdraw all remaining charges against Li because he was unfit to enter a plea, a conclusion unanimously reached by a jury in his manslaughter case.
Zoe Cheung Shuk-ling, managing director of Swiss private bank Julius Baer in Hong Kong, died aged 52 after suffering hypoxic brain damage caused by oversedation at Li’s clinic in Grand Centre, Tsim Sha Tsui, on November 11, 2018.
Li, his wife, Veronica Li Lau Wei-chue, and their son, Dr Konrad Li Ming-sheng, did not immediately call an ambulance after Cheung fell into a coma and instead attempted to resuscitate her using a bag-valve device.
