Botox beautician – who caused woman’s lips to double in size – is a gangster’s moll jailed for three years in a cold-blooded murder case
A BOTOX beautician whose filler injection caused a woman’s lips to swell to twice their size is in fact a glamorous gangster’s moll once jailed for three years in a murder case, The Sun can reveal.
Bretony Gallimore, 27, tours the country carrying out cosmetic procedures on men and women at their homes in events often dubbed “botox parties”.
She has admitted having no insurance or any medical qualifications – as these are not required in the largely unregulated cosmetic surgery industry.
Law firm executive Rachael’s lips swelled so much that her top lip touched her nose and she was rushed to A&E.
Seven days later she had to attend a private clinic where specialists dissolved the filler in her lips – allowing them to return to normal within 72 hours.
Despite the blunder Gallimore has continued to operate her business under the name “The Aesthetic Lounge” with a private Instagram page touting for work to over 16,000 followers.
A swanky website for the firm also offers Kim Kardashian cheek fillers with all the business’s online material failing to mention Gallimore’s name anywhere.
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The gangster’s moll helped career crook Anthony Henry evade cops after the cold-blooded shooting of Kieran McGrath, 26.
She booked a hotel room for lover Henry and allowed him to use her phone while he hid in the days following the 2014 murder.
A source said: “She’s clearly trying to keep her name out the business to avoid people making the link to her past.
“People should know who they’re dealing with and what can happen when her procedures go wrong.”
Gallimore was jailed alongside Henry, then 31, and his two accomplices Jace Smith, 31, and Troy Beckford, 23, for gunning down the scaffolder.
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Hitman Remi Adams, carrying out the orders of Henry, was later jailed in a separate trial for the killing.
The feud between the pair had begun in a row over a girl which led to McGrath twice beating Henry in “straightener” fights.
Henry then resolved to kill McGrath and planted an electronic bug on his white Audi RS so they could track his movements on an iPad.
He received a life sentence for murder while Adams, Smith and Beckford were also handed life tariffs for murder and Gallimore, of Manchester, was jailed for three years for assisting an offender.
Gallimore’s cosmetic surgery site offers “anti wrinkle treatments”, “derma fillers”, “lip enhancement” and “vampire facials”.
Fully qualified practitioner with a fully satisfied, nationwide client base
The Aesthetic Lounge
She appears to describe herself as a “fully qualified practitioner” and misleadingly with a “fully satisfied, nationwide client based (sic) and prescribed on a consultancy basis.”
And in a brazen video posted in January on her Instagram page – where she touts for business – Gallimore boasts about working alongside a “top complications doctor”, an “expert in complications”.
She then claims the doctor has “actually reversed blindness twice” before saying there are “12 points on the face” where a filler injection can turn a “client blind straight away”.
Pictures on her website also show her alongside 2017 Love Island star Sam Gowland who she claims to have “worked with”.
The ex-con has a 2017 Companies House entry for her business, of which she is the sole director, under the name The Aesthetic Lounge Mcr but has yet to file any accounts.
Meanwhile Knappier, from Leicestershire, has taken her fight to Parliament and is campaigning for tighter regulations of the cosmetic surgery industry.
Lip fillers alone cost an average of £300 in a clinic, but Rachael, head of operations at a law firm, had fillers and Botox for around £220 at her pal’s home.
She previously told The Sun: “My case is an example of why the cosmetic surgery industry needs to be changed.
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“The combination of the party atmosphere, my own naivety and the beautician’s lack of training meant I could have lost my lip.”
Organisation Save Face, a government-recognised national register of accredited non-surgical practitioners, received 934 complaints from patients in one year about non-registered operators.
Their 2018 report showed lip fillers made up 616 of those complaints – more than double the number in 2016 – while botox procedures were another 224 complaints.
The Sun repeatedly tried to contact Gallimore for a response to the case but she declined to comment.
Ashton Collins, director of Save Face, said: “Lip fillers can be administered by anyone regardless of their qualifications or experience.
“This has led to a huge rise in the number of unscrupulous people setting themselves up as treatment providers without any relevant training and insurance who often source cheap products over the internet with no idea of their safety or efficacy.
“Over 83% of all complaints were relating to treatments administered by beauticians, hairdressers and laypeople
“Unfortunately, when you chose a practitioner who is unaccountable and unverified you have no way of knowing they are appropriately trained, insured and are competent to identify and manage complications.”
