14 DAY TRIAL // A couple of years ago, Duncan Williams and his late wife, Dr. Yelena Watkins, developed a so-called miracle cure to fight fat, derived from crushed soya beans and that was marketed as an alternative to liposuction. The two sold the treatment for almost a year to thousands of women before any authority stepped in to ask for a license for it, which they could not provide. Now, Judge Martin Stephens fined millionaire Williams for continuing to sell the disfiguring product.
Williams must pay £800,000, while his company, Lipomed Ltd., has also been fined with £5,000 for ignoring government demands to stop selling an unlicensed product, the Telegraph informs. Advertised both online and in the local media (television and newspapers), Flabjab was supposedly the only £250 injection that could make fat go away, and not few were the women who bought the story and paid the money, two of them to be permanently disfigured afterwards, the aforementioned publication says.
“Housewife Tina Slack was left with swollen arms for a week after receiving the treatment at a Cardiff clinic. She had heard of the treatment after it was publicized on the ‘Richard and Judy Show.’ Another woman, Pauline Bailey, received the injection on both sides of her jaw line. Following the treatment, her lower face and neck became swollen, causing her such pain, she was forced to sleep upright with a support for her neck. Mrs. Bailey believes that the treatment altered the structure of her face, and remains upset by her appearance every time she looks in the mirror.” another British publication, the Daily Mail, informs.
Speaking at the recent hearing, Williams told that the allergic reactions of the two women were uncommon, since his late wife had also tested the jab on herself and found that it had no side-effects. Moreover, he explained, the company also produced other treatments that were perfect variants for widely renowned ones, such as Botox, for instance – and they came with no side-effects as well.
Nevertheless, the Daily Mail writes, the drug had been used in German hospitals to unblock veins and arteries prior to it hitting the UK market and authorities had warned that it should not be used as an injection, a warning that Williams reportedly chose to ignore.