Businesswoman receives £6 million payout for botched facelift...

A succesful businesswoman today won a £6.2 million payout after a cosmetic surgeon decided to "play God" with her face.

Penny Johnson, 49, was left permanently disfigured with a droopy "monster eye" after a botched facelift meant she could no longer work and led to her financial and IT consultancy going bust.

The mother of three from Godstone in Surrey told the High Court that "vanity" led her to contact cosmetic surgeon Le Roux Fourie in 2003.

Mrs Johnson said that she only wanted a minor procedure for her nose and to remove dark circles from around her eyes. More...

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