A beautician has been sentenced to seven weeks in prison for helping her unlicensed manager perform a botched botox injection two years ago at a now-closed Hong Kong centre. Lau Lo was escorted to Kowloon City Court in a prison van on Thursday and jailed on a charge of performing medical treatments without registration causing injuries at CC Beauty in Jordan on November 7, 2022. The 38-year-old was found guilty of having referred her friend, Qian Qingqing, to take the botulinum toxin shot administered by manager Zhang Min, who was not qualified to practice medicine in the city.
The trial heard Qian suffered from side effects such as blurred vision, problems in chewing and an increased heartbeat soon after the injection, whereas Lau received a HK$200 (US$26) commission for referring the victim. Magistrate Kestrel Lam Tsz-hong said in sentencing that an immediate term of imprisonment was inevitable, given the “very serious” nature of the offence and the public safety risk it posed..