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A woman who was terrified of dentists was killed by the gross negligence of an anaesthetist during routine treatment, the Old Bailey heard.

Mrs Isatu Bangura, 56, was so frightened she insisted on a general anaesthetic for the routine work.

She died six days later because of the incompetence
of Richard Kaul, 37, at his surgery in Balls Pond Road, Dalston, the jury was told.

Prosecutor Mr William Boyce told the court: ‘The general allegation against Dr Kaul is that in performing his duty in that dental surgery in the afternoon of March 9 as an anaesthetist, he was grossly negligent.

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The court heard American trained Kaul owned the building and was a qualified doctor.

He was not trained as a dentist and employed them to work for him in his surgery on the second floor.

Mrs Bangura, an American citizen came to Britain to for her daughter’s wedding in February 1999 and went to the surgery on March 3.

‘She needed a tooth out, an extraction, she needed fillings and she needed scrape and polish,’ Mr Boyce said.

‘However, Mrs Bangura was one of those persons who was nervous of dentist and dentistry.

‘It was her wish to be be asleep when any dental surgery was performed on her.

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Mrs Bangura initially consulted the dentist in the ground floor surgery but he only performed operations under local anaesthetic.

He referred her to the surgery upstairs and Mrs Banguara was booked in there for treatment six days later.

But the treatment went so badly wrong that the middle aged woman was rushed to hospital where she died on March 15.

Kaul, of Welbeck Street, Marylebone, denies manslaughter on March 15.

The trial continues.

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