Businesswoman wins compensation claim

A businesswoman who made a compensation claim after plastic surgery on her went wrong has won her legal case.

Penny Johnson was awarded more than £6.1 million by a High Court judge in London after the surgery left her with a permanent facial twitch.

She said: "My face is constantly contracting, I don’t sleep and I have a permanent buzzing around my eye which can be so intense that I can’t think about anything."

Ms Johnson also claimed that the effects of the operation had impacted negatively on her financial and IT consultancy.

As a result, injury lawyers persuaded the court to award her £80,000 for pain caused and almost £6 million to cover past, as well as future loss of earnings, leaving her with damages of £6,190,884.92.

Ms Johnson, of Surrey, visited a surgeon named Dr Le Roux Fourie in 2003 for minor procedures.

However, Dr Fourie suggested that she have more extensive work, which left her with a deformity and nerve damage.

In another case, Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust made compensation payouts to several women after work carried out on them by breast cancer surgeon Puvaneswary Markandoo went wrong.

Published by Hannah Carr