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Turkish surgeon behind weight-loss operation on London woman who died insists: 'I did nothing wrong'

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A Turkish weight loss surgeon who carried out an operation on a south London woman who died days later has insisted he did nothing wrong.

Morgan Ribeiro, 20, fell ill on the plane as she flew home from the gastric sleeve surgery in Istanbul on January 5 and later died on January 13. 

Her mother, Erin Gibson, 44, said she was informed her small intestine had been accidentally cut during the procedure and hit out at

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