Tories promise to jail 'backstreet Botox' clinic staff who leave patients scarred for life

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They could be sent to prison for up to five years under plans approved by David Cameron to '"criminalise" botched face-lift treatments by amateurs and put them on the same legal footing as assault.

The Tories also intend to ban so-called "remote prescribing" of Botox and similar drugs whereby a doctor writes a prescription for potentially toxic cosmestic treatment without seeing the patient.

The moves are part of Tory plans for greater regulation of a booming cosmetic surgery sector estimated to be worth almost £1billion a year.

Industry sources, while admitting that there is a problem, say the Tories are over-reacting and that better regulation is already on the way.

Going under the needle: The Tories want to crackdown on 'backstreet Botox' clinics