A businesswoman has been awarded £6m in damages against a plastic surgeon who she claimed decided to "play God" with her life.
Penny Johnson, 49, claimed Mr Le Roux Fourie undertook experimental surgery during her facelift in August 2003.
Mrs Johnson, of Godstone, Surrey, said the operation had caused nerve damage to the right side of her face which led to her IT consultancy going into administration in 2009.
She had asked the court for a proportion of the £54m which she says was her potential loss, as a 50% shareholder in the company Bishop Cavanagh.
Mr Fourie admitted liability but did not accept that the surgery was experimental.
He said the claim that Mrs Johnson's company lost out on a series of lucrative contracts was unrealistic and deluded.
Talking about her experience Mrs Johnson said: "My face is constantly contracting, I do not sleep and I have a permanent buzzing around my eye which can be so intense that I cannot think about anything."
The majority of the payout awarded to Mrs Johnson was for past and potential future lost earnings.
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