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Shamed nurses accused of offering backstreet Botox in BBC One investigation

A struck-off Wolverhampton nurse and a suspended Stourbridge nurse are accused of offering backstreet Botox in a TV investigation to be screened tonight.

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Jonathan Henk from Wolverhampton, who calls himself 'Jonny Botox', was filmed offering a woman 'as much Botox as she wants for £200', according to the BBC Inside Out programme.

It is claimed he told her that he has been a nurse for 26 years. Henk was struck off the nursing register in 2012 for having sex with a patient without their consent while he was a psychiatric nurse.

James Kearsey, who is suspended from the nursing register for hiding a conviction of assault from hospital bosses, is filmed offering Botox at his home clinic in Stourbridge, the programme claims.

The programme speaks to 10 women unhappy with the treatment they have received from Henk, saying they have been left in pain and some with swollen foreheads.

Diane, 52, from Tamworth, who was injected by Henk, says: "I had headaches on the night and for a couple of days after. It felt like someone had put an axe in my head."

The programme also hears from Ashton Collins who runs Save Face, a database which checks who is safe to administer cosmetic injections like Botox.

Talking about Jonny Botox's treatment she said: "The fact he's lied to you makes the actual consent to treatment null and void."

When interviewed by the BBC Henk admits he shouldn't prescribe Botox and that some customers said the treatment hadn't worked but said "I only know one person who was really unhappy... If they are unhappy with the service and they want a refund, that's fine."

The BBC repeatedly approached Kearsey but he refuses to comment on the allegations.

Watch Inside Out at 7.30pm on BBC One.

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