Two days before a NSW woman's death, 'blood and pus came gushing out' of the side of her hand after a body modifier reopened a surgical area, a friend has told a court.
The woman had weeks earlier had a plastic snowflake implanted between the bone and skin of the back of her hand by Brendan Leigh Russell.
'When he cut open her hand to reposition the snowflake, all this blood and pus came gushing out the side,' the friend told the NSW District Court on Monday.
'I then later witnessed that on the video (filmed by the deceased woman).'
Brendan Leigh Russell (pictured), 40, has pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of a woman after her death in April 2017
Russell, a body modifier known by moniker BSlice Dot Com, has pleaded not guilty to the woman's manslaughter after inserting the plastic snowflake in her hand in his parlour in a Central Coast shopping centre in March 2017.
The woman died on April 12 - two days after a follow-up in which Russell reopened the wound, washed it out and reinserted the implant.
She'd not taken up the advice of her friend to see a doctor and get antibiotics.
The day before her death, the woman looked 'exhausted' and was complaining of soreness in her hand.
Her friend, who also lived next door, was so concerned, she insisted on accompanying the woman to an unrelated medical appointment 'so I could make sure she was OK'.
'She had her right hand covered with her sleeve and when she pulled that sleeve back, all stitches were either in process of falling out - some had already fallen out - and the hand was weeping blood and pus,' the friend said.
