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He then explained how beauticians could use a genuine patient's prescription to order extra vials and keep the spare doses for other paying clients.

The beautician who carried out Mrs Howson's treatment was prosecuted for unlawfully practising dentistry and was ordered to pay £250 compensation.

But undercover BBC researchers caught several pharmacists trying to prescribe the medicine to beauticians to use on people who had not been clinically assessed.

Researchers posing as beauticians secretly filmed a nurse trading prescriptions over WhatsApp, a pharmacist coaching clients to falsify records and a bogus doctor handing over Korean toxin vials for cash.

The beautician was in work in Newtown, Powys, on the day she gave birth, and after finishing with her last client felt what she thought were just menstrual cramps.