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tv   Botched  BBC News  February 8, 2025 1:30pm-2:02pm GMT

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a special church service has a special church service has been held this morning, been held this morning, dedicated to harvey willgoose, dedicated to harvey willgoose, the 15—year—old who was the 15—year—old who was stabbed to death at his stabbed to death at his school in sheffield. school in sheffield. another 15—year—old has been another 15—year—old has been charged with murder. charged with murder. ajudge has blocked some of president trump's plan to dismantle america's international aid organisation. aid organisation. the intervention, in response to a lawsuit filed by unions, comes hours before almost all usaid staff were due now on bbc news...botched: the brazilian butt lift nightmare.
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hello. hello. hello, darling. hello, darling. ricky sawyer. the man you just saw is ricky sawyer. he calls himself britain's biggest brazilian butt lift injector.
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it was ricky sawyer. let me take you back to the beginning. to go undercover. no, you can only. see your silhouette. you think i look like a client? yes. nice. i've booked into ricky sawyer�*s clinic for a non—surgical i'm not going to go still feeling nervous. and there's no getting it wrong cos there's no wrong or right. i do you know what i mean? and we're here now. i had to message him early this morning to make sure that it was still going ahead, and find out the address, and i think my appointment�*s going to be here. it's not quite what i was expecting.
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he advertises on instagram. morning. hello. morning, how are you? yourself? good, thanks. dermatox. lift: doors opening. thank you. right. she knocks hi! she's just... ah, there he is. "we'll take really good care of you." mm—hm. shocking. the way that he's coming in,
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like, "hello, darling." yeah, exactly. he was sat behind the door, like hiding, when i walked in, this is one of ricky sawyer�*s recent clients, joanne. she looks and has spent thousands on treatments. promising "the hourglass figure you've always dreamed of." what made it even more attractive, it was being so i've now finished the bum! look at that! i can even feel itjiggling! and i've got a bum! didn't have to fly anywhere. and show it from behind, guys, so you know this is not edited.
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to have a nice, peachy bum. after paying a £600 deposit, joanne booked i didn't know how to get there, and i had a gut feeling just go." when you say everything felt wrong, what was to this, like, train station. on the phone were wrong. then it weren't, it was "press buzzer ten." i sat downstairs in the, um... really nervous.
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and, like, a worktop. mm—hm. was ricky sawyer. joanne says within minutes of their meeting, ricky sawyer of dermalfiller. many qualified surgeons see it as one of the most dangerous and painful cosmetic procedures out there. joanne's pain was instant. i felt dizzy, sick, um... starting as well. and then at one point you turned around and saw him injecting you. yeah. just a sharps box on the floor, his hands with the big
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needle, and his gloves were full of blood. with every second. the pain was so intense and i wasjust basically living on painkillers. what was it looking like at this point? you could see all these lumps and bumps and...red, and these lumps then would move. and at this point, did you get back in touch with the instagram page? yeah. but theyjust kept on telling me, "look, everything you're feeling is normal." and i said, "well, you told me it'd be pain—free. "i'm in agony." but theyjust said, "carry on with your painkillers in a couple of days." siren wails. but joanne wasn't fine.
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joanne was blue—lighted to hospital and received emergency treatment for sepsis. she says the doctors thought they would need to cut the filler out to save her life. than carry on with the pain. joanne was lucky. where ricky sawyer�*s cannula had pierced her skin. murky, like... it was like a horrible thing, but it literally ran out of me for 18 hours. now i've got, like, two indents in my right bum cheek from where it burst.
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back at ricky sawyer�*s pop—up clinic in london, the injector boasts about the number of procedures he's carried out. with each bbl costing around £2,000, he has the potential at a cost, as one woman has heard far too often. ashton collins is a campaigner for better regulation around cosmetic treatments. she has been collecting evidence about ricky sawyer�*s that he operates.
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are really severe and serious complications, and i think practitioners, so it's not just one person. the damage that he's causing. so we have testimony of 39 women here, and they've all come forward to you, saying they have had treatment by ricky sawyer and ended up in hospital. yeah. and if we just look at it, we can see, "buttocks were painful and swollen. " "i'm struggling to walk and cannot work." "sharp, stabbing pain." "the ambulance had to be called as i couldn't breathe." "needed urgent surgical intervention." yeah. this is really serious. yeah, it doesn't get much more serious than that. and i think, you know,
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what makes it even more shocking is that none of these people thought they were embarking upon something that was as serious as this. treatments, and even when they reach out for help, they are dismissed — their symptoms are dismissed as being normal. it's... it's horrible. after having a liquid bbl. she ended up in hospital with sepsis. back in my appointment, the topic of infection comes up.
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ricky sawyer seemed adamant there was no real risk as long as i took antibiotics and followed the aftercare instructions. this went against everything i had heard from joanne and many of the other women i've spoken to. i travel to wolverhampton to meet mr dalvi humzah, a plastic surgeon who sits on thejoint council the antibiotics don't prevent infection. ..they were actually just not very cooperative - in my appointment, ricky sawyer gave me a box of antibiotics
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without a valid prescription. this is illegal. a local anaesthetic, is a medical decision so they can't make independent decisions as to how much is not an answer, and not knowing what the safe so that he can work out how much lidocaine to give you. an ultrasound doctor at my appointment. dalvi says using an ultrasound machine is vital. particularly with a filler, we always use that as a quick is for that particular
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patient, because everyone's anatomy is different. so, to avoid any problems, this has been almost a life—saver for me. this has been the one bit of equipment that you use i'd been in that room for 40, 45 minutes, 1000ml in one go is going to put your body tissues at risk. under the pressure of, you know, that volume, that's going to stretch your tissues.
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we know that infection risk is high. so you could be there. she said, "i sent you a text to say "i'm in hospital, but it's ok. in hospital, but it's ok. i'm going to be fine." isaid, "0k. isaid, "0k. right, that's good." she said, "but i'm not." she said, "but i'm not." she said, "i'm going to die." janet taylor's daughter had she was excited, but a week gone for a liquid bbl. later, she needed emergency surgery in hospital. surgery in hospital.
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i went into immediate shock. i went into immediate shock. they were tracking her sepsis, and it was travelling down her leg, and it was travelling leg, and it was travelling at such a rate, and her blood at such a rate, and her blood pressure was dropping, pressure was dropping, temperature was rising, but they didn't know whether or not they'd have to amputate her leg, temperature was rising, or take her bum muscle out to stop the sepsis travelling any further, so it would have meant so it would have meant she could have either she could have either lost a leg or ended up in a wheelchairfor the rest of her life. the rest of her life. she said, "it's not she said, "it's not worth living. worth living. i'd rather die." i said, "can i speak i said, "can i speak to the surgeon?" to the surgeon?" so i said, "how much so i said, "how much time have we got?" time have we got?" he said, "five minutes. he said, "five minutes. "after five minutes, "after five minutes, there's no going back. there's no going back. louise will die." louise will die." and things being done. and things being done. and...she hung up. and...she hung up. she sat on a cold hospital floor for four hours while her daughter fought for her life. there wasn't one thought going through my head. i didn't touch my phone, didn't speak to anybody. i didn't want to think any further thanjust
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too insecure to appear on camera, but wanted her mum janet is determined to getjustice for louise and is trying to get the police to investigate. been into bolton five times in total. wasn't well known. the person working on reception asked if louise had signed a consent form, of which i answered yes. so he actually said, "well, it was her own fault." until i spoke to a sergeant. i went into reception, same
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gentleman was on reception, and so i said that i would wait and i wouldn't leave the gentleman then called two police officers and had me of the premises by two officers for wanting to speak to a sergeant. not everyone has a janet that's able to fight their corner. they feel ashamed. they feel scared. they're left trying to rebuild their lives, but unable to get any form ofjustice. janet isn't the only one who is trying to take action against ricky sawyer. three councils have put out prohibition notices banning him from carrying out liquid bbls.
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and brentwood council say they've done so to protect the public from serious injury. aesthetics clinics can pop up anywhere, and they could close and we wouldn't know about it. it's very difficult to deal with. to gather the intelligence correctly, to know where these practitioners are happening, and our hands are tied. there needs to be a standard put across the board over 20,000 signatures.
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it's calling for liquid bbls to be banned unless they are carried out by a qualified plastic surgeon in a safe clinical environment. we put our evidence to the department of health and social care, which said they are urgently looking for options for tougher regulation. they said our findings were shocking and that those caught dispensing medication without a licence should feel this is exactly what janet has tried to make happen hiya. so how did it go? yeah? i'm surprised. then you could be looking at a criminal case? yes, definitely. i do have hope.
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and this will give me and louise closure on the whole is farfrom certain. forces to get an update. both said they have looked at the case and it's down to the other to investigate. it appears janet is back in limbo. i've come to seejoanne in her hometown of port when i metjoanne, the first thing she said her priority now is to make sure her daughter never feels the same way. how do you feel about the fact that ricky it's shocking. he should be locked up. you know?
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been through, but would you ever get any of these treatments? no, never. why not? i think everyone should just i stay the way the way they are. yeah? yeah. i love her way of thinking. i wish that i had more common sense. training, not having a clean, safe environment, in my front
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room, injecting him with the same products that hello. ricky sawyer. can you get out? i'm a journalist at the bbc. please ask... are you putting your clients in danger? four women have told us they have nearly died... ..after treatment by you. why are you still carrying out these bbls?
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get me up. to say to the women? he's put up dozens of posts on social media advertising his liquid bbl treatment. phone chimes. and it's £300 off this week.
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hello. but you have to go pretty high. this part of blaenau gwent is over 300 metres above sea level. that is showing up on our radar picture. the weather in the highlands, where we got barely a cloud in the sky. here we've got a ridge of high pressure. that's actually breaking a powered up nicely for west scotland. further southwards, a weak area of low pressure is bringing
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nothing particularly heavy. there is a fairly brisk wind around, as well, that's making it feel particularly chilly, with temperatures today for most about four to 6 degrees. now overnight and weekend area of low pressure continues it stays misty as well. a really sharp frost develop, temperatures down to —7 that ridge gets a little bit more extensive and stronger for the east coast of scotland and probably more of scotland enjoying those sunny skies. otherwise it's a cloudy start to the day once again, breaks further west, perhaps a few for northern ireland as well.
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heading into next week we continue to have the area chilly easterly winds. brings thicker cloud and bits and pieces of rain and drizzle at times. so not a lot of sunshine around next week, but again it's to see the best of any limited cloud breaks. you can head to the bbc app to see just how cloudy the weather is likely to be in the week ahead where you are. bye for now.
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live from london, this is bbc news. three israeli hostages held by hamas for almost 500 days are handed over to red cross vehicles in gaza. the idf says the hostages are now back in israel.
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in exchange, israel has freed 183 palestinian prisoners. in the west bank. a special church service has been held dedicated stabbed to death at his school in sheffield. ajudge has blocked some of president trump's plan the intervention, in response to a lawsuit filed by unions, to be placed on leave. hello. expressed shock at images showing the poor condition of the latest three hostages
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released by hamas in the fifth
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