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Healthcare professionals have warned that Scotland is the worst country in Europe for unqualified beauticians injecting customers with cosmetic treatments.

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.

Earlier this year, a sudden outbreak of botulism across England left dozens of young women in hospital, some partially paralysed, after being injected with black-market Korean toxin sold by beauticians as a Botox-style treatment.