London girl's actress cousin 'arranged fatal buttocks op'

The actress cousin of a London student allegedly organised the buttock enhancement surgery which led to her death.

Detectives are investigating the role Scheffee Wilson, 30, played in arranging the procedure in a US hotel room that resulted in Claudia Aderotimi's death.

Ms Wilson, who appeared in the film American Gangster, was at the budget Hampton Inn near Philadelphia airport when the 20-year-old aspiring dancer was given the £1,000 silicone injection.

She is understood to have been waiting to undergo her own buttock enhancement as payment for introducing her cousin to the unlicensed doctor.

Lt John Walker of Philadelphia police said Ms Wilson, who lives in New Jersey, is being treated as a witness.

A 26-year-old woman who advertises online under the name "Big Butt Sasha" and "Sasha Newbody" is believed to have introduced Ms Wilson and her cousin to the "fake" doctor.

Police seized a batch of silicone from the home of the transgender woman who administered the injections.

She faces involuntary manslaughter charges as well as practising medicine without a licence. The suspect has gone into hiding.

A preliminary autopsy showed the Thames Valley University student died from having silicone injected into her veins causing a massive heart attack.