Overview

• Turkish police have opened a probe into possible reckless homicide after 38-year-old Martyn Latchman fell ill and died just before undergoing a second hair transplant at Istanbul’s CINIK clinic.
• Investigators have questioned the surgeon, anaesthesiologist and nurses, and the man’s body remains at the Forensic Medicine Institute pending autopsy findings.
• Following the autopsy, Latchman’s remains were repatriated to the UK with support from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office for the grieving family.
• CINIK clinic maintains it conducted comprehensive pre-surgery evaluations and asserts the patient became unwell during the preparatory phase before the operation began.
• Turkey’s hair transplant tourism has surged to over one million procedures annually at costs up to 70% lower than in the UK, coinciding with a 94% increase in British hospital admissions after overseas cosmetic surgeries over three years.