Tributes have been paid to one of the country's top plastic surgeons who died in a road traffic accident while cycling.
Niall Kirkpatrick, 62 was killed after being hit by a car along a country lane while out enjoying a Sunday morning cycle ride with a friend in Fairstead, Essex.
A 65-year-old man is being held on suspicion of causing death by careless driving.
Mr Kirkpatrick worked for both the NHS and also ran a private practice from London's Harley Street which attracted high profile patients from all around the world.
He was also a specialist in craniofacial surgery for children at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and a leading expert in head and neck surgery.
Mr Kirkpatrick was also considered one of the world's leading facelift surgeons.
Renowned plastic surgeon Niall Kirkpatrick, 62 was killed after being hit by a car along a country lane while out enjoying a Sunday morning cycle ride with a friend in Fairstead, Essex
He lived in a £2.2 million home with his wife Anahita and three sons, aged 17, 21, and 26, in West London and is believed to have earned more than £500,000 per year from his NHS job, private consultancy and TV work.
He previously featured extensively on the television show Botched Up Bodies in which he corrected cosmetic surgery operations that had gone disastrously wrong.
In 2012, Mr Kirkpatrick led a medical team that famously ‘rebuilt’ the face of Ali Hussein, an Iraqi teenager seriously injured in an American airstrike in 2003 when he was only 7-years-old.
It earned him a place in Britain's top 100 children’s doctors.
Mr Kirkpatrick was also known for his work with the charity Facing the World, which focuses on children in Vietnam suffering from facial deformities.
In his role as its medical director and surgeon, he regularly
