A body modifier has been charged with manslaughter after a NSW woman who had a plastic snowflake implanted in her hand died of blood poisoning.
The 37-year-old man - who works as body modifier and tattooist on the Central Coast - was also charged on Monday with grievous bodily harm following an operating on a second woman.
He was already facing female genital mutilation charges for allegedly burning the genitals of a third woman with a branding iron sometime in 2016 at Newcastle West.
The body modifier was arrested at his Terrigal home on Monday morning.
NSW Police say a 30-year-old client of his tattoo shop was found dead in her Toowoon Bay home by her seven-year-old daughter in mid-April.
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The woman had a plastic snowflake implanted under the skin of her right hand in a surgical procedure three weeks before her death and later complained of complications, detectives allege.
A post-mortem examination revealed she died from an infection.
A second woman, aged 38, also complained after going to the man's business for a stomach procedure in November 2016. He's been charged with causing her grievous bodily harm.
The man was refused bail by police and is expected before Gosford Local Court on Tuesday.
