A self-styled Brazilian butt lift specialist has appeared in court accused of breaching an injunction after he carried out a series of botched procedures. Ricky Sawyer, known for his work on Katie Price and other celebrities, carried out risky “non-surgical BBLs”, which involve the injection of dermal filler to enlarge the buttocks. However, he was given a three-year ban, preventing him from carrying out any cosmetic procedures in England and Wales until May 2028, after many women were left with life-changing injuries.
New Legal Action
Trafford Council has brought a further legal case against Sawyer after a judge granted an injunction against him in May 2025. It is alleged Sawyer instructed or permitted another man, Ahmed Mohamed Ali Nabih Elsharkawi, to carry out procedures at an address in Baker Street, London, after he procured the premises for that reason. He is also alleged to have breached the injunction by “instructing, encouraging or permitting” the carrying out of procedures while his company, the Clinic Club Ltd, of which he was sole director, was trading. The breaches are said to have taken place between June 2025 and October 2025.
Gary Lewis, prosecuting on behalf of the council, told the hearing at Manchester Civil Justice Centre that it was not being alleged that Sawyer himself had carried out procedures. “Procedures were carried out and the defendant remained responsible for that business during the period concerned,” he said. Sawyer claims to have sold his business to a Miss Silverman in May 2025, but Mr Lewis claimed she was a “stooge” and he remained in de-facto control.
Evidence and Defence
The court heard about evidence from two council employees regarding the Clinic Club and Dermatax, another company linked to Sawyer, which included cash transactions and social media posts. It is alleged that Sawyer remained sole director and signatory of the Clinic Club even after it was sold and he was “strongly linked” to other similarly named companies. However, John Small, defending, told the court that despite the publicity surrounding the case, no one had come forward to say they had undergone a cosmetic procedure since the injunction was served.
Sawyer had offered treatments across the country at pop-up clinics, including domestic rental properties, office blocks, or hotel rooms. He carried on operating under new business names, despite being served prohibition notices from councils in Essex, Glasgow, and Greater Manchester. His social media pages boasted celebrity endorsements and before-and-after shots, masking the reality that many of his procedures went seriously wrong.
Injunction and Injuries
The injunction bars him from undertaking any cosmetic procedure or “procuring, occupying or arranging” premises for any cosmetic procedure. It also prevents him from keeping any surgical equipment or antibiotics typically used in such treatments, unless for his own use. A power of arrest was attached to the order, allowing police to detain him should he breach the injunction. This followed investigations by ITV News and the BBC into how Sawyer was performing high-risk procedures in unregulated settings.
Manchester Civil Justice Centre previously heard evidence of the graphic injuries sustained by some clients, some of which were likened to those of a “serious knife crime”. One of his clients, Louise Moller, told ITV News how she was “20 minutes from death” after she developed sepsis as a result of treatment. Another woman told the BBC that Sawyer had “butchered” her and left her covered in blood, and she had to be rushed to hospital with a life-threatening infection days later. Other women reported tissue necrosis, severe infections, and ongoing trauma.
