Bogus doctor becomes first to be jailed for injecting fake botulinum into two women

A bogus doctor who inflicted grievous bodily harm on two female clients by injecting them with fake botulinum toxin has been jailed for four years. 

The case has been decribed as a “landmark case” by police inspector Karen Penn because it is the first of its kind brought against a bogus botox practitioner. 

Marcelle King and Carol Kingscott’s claimed to have been left with “severe pain” and “long-lasting damage” to their faces after Ozan Melin, 42, from Uxbridge, London, injected them with an “unknown and extremely dangerous substance”. 

Both women’s faces were so swollen they couldn’t see, and King had to be hospitalised after suffering a reaction similar to anaphylactic shock, saying she thought she was “going to die”. 

Kingscott said she considered suicide because of the disfigurement to her face. 

Melin denied the charges and claimed he had never told the women he was medically trained or a doctor. However, a jury found him guilty of causing GBH. He was found not guilty of a third offence against another woman, Jozette Sheppard, because she could not be sure whether he told her he was medically trained before she had the treatment. 

Melin was jailed for four years last month following a trial at Bournemouth Crown Court.