Inside the horrifying High St beauty firm butchering patients in dirty rooms with dodgy ‘liposuction’, fillers and BBLs
LYING on a chair in the centre of a clinic, a woman has a metal rod rammed into her neck as blood leaks from the incision.
It drips out along with fat, which is then allegedly poured down a sink when a suction machine is emptied.
But this is not the start of a gory horror film — it is the scene in a high street aesthetics parlour.
Daria Wisniewska and Monika Wisniewska-Truchan are carrying out what they call “liporeduction” — taking fat out the body — with equipment that looks very like kit normally used to remove earwax and phlegm.
The pair, who own Luxury Medical Aesthetics, have no apparent record of proper medical training.
But they are about to set off on a nationwide tour performing liquid Brazilian butt lifts and breast fillers.
It comes after they have trained practitioners across the country in liporeduction, which is highly unlikely to be insurable in these circumstances.
Dr Sophie Shotter, a medic who has been practising for 16 years and is a member of the British College of Aesthetic Medicine, viewed videos of their liporeduction training sent to The Sun.
She said: “I can’t see any real difference between what they are doing and liposuction.
“Liposuction is, by definition, a medical procedure and should be done in an operating theatre, where everything is sterile.
“It should only be done by medical professionals.”
‘Screamed in pain’
We spoke to two former “patients” of Daria and Monika, who the General Medical Council confirmed are not registered doctors.
Mrs Mohammed, 41, who wants us to only use her surname, and her 18-year-old daughter paid £4,000 in cash for procedures from the clinic.
But both ended up in hospital as a result. The mum had liporeduction and a liquid Brazilian butt lift carried out by Monika, while her daughter was booked for a liquid BBL in September this year.
The women said they were not told of the dangers and did not get a consent form to sign before the procedures.
They also forked out £300 via bank transfer as a deposit.
Describing her liporeduction, Mrs Mohammed told The Sun: “The clinic was really dirty — there was blood all over the bed. She cut both sides of my abdomen.
“Then she put the cannula [thin tube] in my stomach, and she started moving the cannula around the left side.
“When she did my right side, I was in agony. She did the right side for 20 minutes, and then used a little wipe to clean me up and put two plasters over it.
“When I stood up, I was still bleeding. According to my Fitbit, my blood pressure really dropped.
“I asked, ‘Monika, how come I’m in so much pain? How come I’ve got so much blood coming out of my body?’.
“She said it was normal and told me to sit down so she could do my daughter’s BBL.”
Recalling her girl’s alleged ordeal, Mrs Mohammed continued: “When my daughter laid on the bed, she started injecting filler into her bum.
“Within seconds, my daughter screamed in pain and started crying. She told me she wanted it to stop.
“Monika said it was fine for her to stop, but we had to come to the till and pay first, and we had to pay in full because we’d been there all day despite not having it fully done.
“The fillers she’d opened were 800ml. She said she can’t chuck them away so she started with my BBL. It was incredibly painful.
“I managed to cope while she put 200ml each side.
“I said I didn’t want all 800ml as it would be too much pain. As we were driving back, the BBL liquid started leaking and the liporeduction cuts started bleeding. I passed out in the passenger seat.
“My daughter quickly took me to hospital but because of the waiting times we went home.”
The mum added: “The next morning, the blood coming from the upper abdomen got worse and worse, so I had to be rushed to hospital again. They said my abdomen and the BBL had become infected.
“I just want people to know what they are doing.”
Dr Shotter said the procedures mum and daughter appeared to have done would usually include pain relief.
She explained: “Liposuction, which appears very like what they are doing, is normally done under general anaesthetic, with a significant local anaesthetic to ensure the pain a patient could feel is reduced.
Some skilled surgeons can do it while a patient is awake, but I don’t see any of these skills in the videos of the procedure done at Luxury Medical Aesthetics.”
In another video sent to The Sun, of a different woman who had liporeduction, the client is shocked to hear she has a swollen nerve in her face which could last “months”.
But Dr Shotter said any damage could be permanent if the mandibular nerve linked to the jaw was hit.
She added: “Where they are making the incision, there are a lot of vital blood vessels, the parotid gland and the mandibular nerve.
Damaging any of these can cause serious problems.
“It is dangerous. In this video, it isn’t taken seriously enough, in my view. It could heal, but it may not.”
The liporeduction course is sold as “fat reduction”, where fat is dissolved via an injectable and the liquid is removed but, in reality, a suction device is used to extract fat.
‘Blood on the floor’
Practitioners are charged more than £1,000 to train in the practice, and models getting the £500 procedure done must also pay, though they get a slight discount.
A practitioner from near Sheffield, who took the video and others seen by The Sun on a course in April, said: “It was like a horror film.
“They didn’t really seem to numb people properly because some were crying in pain and asked Daria to stop. Daria kept rummaging through drawers before touching the patient’s face by the incision.
“The room was dirty and didn’t seem sanitary.
“When they were done with the machine, the fat was poured down the sink where she was washing up the equipment.”
A US practitioner who flew over for another course the same month was horrified at what she witnessed.
She reported LMA to the General Medical Council, but they could do nothing as Daria and Monika are not registered doctors.
She said: “I thought I was attending a course on non-surgical fat dissolving, but it looked to me like liposuction.
“They were doing the training in what I thought were unsanitary conditions. I saw blood on the floor. I saw human fat extracted from a patient being disposed of down a sink. I saw no sterile drapes.
“In my experience, training facilities typically use disposable containers for soiled, bloody garments and dispose of biohazard materials in designated biohazard containers. I did not see this clinic do this.”
At present, there is no regulatory body in the UK for the aesthetics industry, despite calls for one.
British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons president Nora Nugent said: “Non-plastic surgeons do not have adequate training in liposuction.
“In the videos, standout points are the lack of a sterile field.
“The blonde woman is wearing non-sterile gloves. No surgical gown, gloves, hat or mask are visible. The cannula is too large for the neck, she is too close to the skin.
“All of these add risk, and it looks like she does not know what she is doing.
“To think that she is training others to do the same is extremely worrying.”
Dr Aidan Fowler, NHS national director of patient safety, said: “Patients should be wary of cosmetic surgery practices from unqualified practitioners.
“Unlicensed procedures can cause harm and suck vital time and resources, away from the NHS.”
LMA did not respond to a request for comment.
A CQC spokesperson said: “All cosmetic procedures should be carried out by someone with the right training, qualifications, skills, and experience. Any cosmetic treatment can have risks so effective processes should also be in place to monitor patients during and after procedures and emergency equipment on hand to ensure people’s safety.
“We strongly urge anyone considering cosmetic surgery to think carefully before doing so and we provide guidance on our website to help people to ensure they are fully informed, understand how these services are regulated, and are aware of the risks.
“That guidance stresses the importance of choosing a safe and suitably qualified practitioner to perform the procedure and offers information to help people do so.”
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: “We are extremely concerned by reports of highly invasive cosmetic procedures being performed by inadequately trained practitioners.
“The safety of patients is paramount, and we would urge anyone considering cosmetic surgery to consider the possible health impacts and find a reputable, insured and qualified surgeon.
“All doctors performing cosmetic surgery in the UK must be registered with and licensed to practise by the General Medical Council (GMC).
“We are exploring options around regulation of the cosmetics sector and will provide an update in due course.”
Worry of infection
AESTHETIC doctor Sophie Shotter outlines concerns over the videos she saw of Luxury Medical Aesthetic’s liporeduction practice . . .
Across all treatment videos, I find it horrendous this does not appear to be performed under surgical, aseptic conditions.
The practitioner has not removed her watch or jewellery.
They are not wearing a surgical gown and the patient is still wearing clothes/underwear, and has not been draped, as someone should be for a surgical procedure.
There is repeated touching of the catheter with gauze. I cannot tell if this is sterile gauze, but can say it should not be happening.
Some of the gauze has already been contaminated with blood, and should most definitely not be used to touch the device that is then entering the person’s body. This is an extremely high risk for causing infections.
In some cases, some of the patient’s hair is out of its net, which is not sterile.
There is no sign of the practitioner wearing a surgical mask, plus is a lack of a sterile field and no sign of a trolley to keep instruments on.
There is bleeding in one of the videos, which should not be ignored. It should not just be dabbed at with gauze.
It looks like the patient with the stuck catheter has a lot of fibrosis, which is why the practitioner is having to force it. This creates a higher risk of causing problems.
From the videos I worry about the catheter being pushed all the way down the neck, over areas that do not usually hold a lot of fat, but contain a large amount of crucial neurovascular structures.
The spot where the practitioner inserts the catheter right along the jawline can be very high risk for affecting the marginal mandibular nerve.