‘Fit and healthy’ girl, 16, dies after vocal cords ‘slammed shut’ during routine op to fix infected piercing [Video]

A “FIT and healthy” teenager died during routine operation for an infected ear piercing, a coroner has heard.

Holly Fairchild, 16, didn’t like a scar on her left ear caused by an infected cartilage piercing and was admitted to Great Ormond Street Hospital for surgery.

Holly was admitted to GOSH to fix her left ear after it suffered from an infectionCredit: Alamy

The fit and healthy teenager was soon struck by shock complicationsCredit: PA:Press Association

Holly, a “very active'” and talented footballer from Haddenham, a small village near Oxford, previously went under general anaesthesia with no issue, St Pancras Coroner’s Court heard.

But on August 26 last year she died at Great Ormond Street Hospital two days after a routine appointment.

It was after the delicate surgery had gone smoothly and Dr Neil Bulstrode left theatre that Holly developed a severe form of laryngospasm.

Doctors described it to her parents as her vocal cords …