A recruitment consultant who lost an employment tribunal that heard how she boasted of her ‘gold-star’ sex life also forged prescriptions for Botox-like medication, it emerged yesterday.
Before going into recruitment, Charlotte Tilley, 29, trained as a dental therapist and ran an aesthetics business.
Last week, the General Dental Council (GDC) ruled that she should be ‘erased’ from its register for misconduct.
After hearing how she faked seven private prescriptions for botulinum toxin and dermal fillers over the 14 months up to January 2022, it said her ‘sophisticated’ dishonesty was ‘premeditated and sustained’.
Miss Tilley later joined Gravitas Recruitment Group, an international firm, where she showed off a sex tape she had made, edited photos of naked male torsos on her laptop at work and kissed a woman at the office Christmas party, an employment tribunal heard.
On Wednesday, the Mail told how she was also said to have told colleagues that gold stars on her computer represented the number of times her ‘Johnny Depp’ lover and then colleague Kieron Mattinson, 31, had triggered a particular sexual response in her during intercourse.
She quit after bosses began a disciplinary investigation. She sued for sex discrimination and victimisation, but the Manchester tribunal dismissed her claim on the grounds that she had ‘a high tolerance of matters of a sexual nature’.
It now transpires that a three-day GDC hearing was told last month how Miss Tilley forged the signature of a dentist she had worked with and used the logo of the dental practice where she had worked for four months from September 2020.
She also used the details of a former client to write two of the prescriptions. She admitted her actions in an email to the GDC in February 2022, stating: ‘I used friends’ names and details for the prescriptions, but the prescription items were only ever used on myself, family members, and my partner.
‘I would place an order and email over a copy of the prescriptions to the pharmacy for them to dispense.’
The email was sent a week after a suspicious pharmacist quizzed Miss Tilley over a bogus prescription. The tribunal was told that Miss Tilley, who lives near Oldham, then ‘came clean’ to the pharmacist.
The GDC said Miss Tilley was ‘prescribing medications she was not qualified to prescribe, for use on herself and others’, and ‘was providing aesthetic treatments in the absence of indemnity insurance’.
It said her behaviour amounted to misconduct and that her fitness to practise was impaired – and the only appropriate sanction was erasure because Miss Tilley had breached professional standards and represented ‘a continuing risk of serious harm to patients or other persons’.
Botox is a brand of botulinum toxin injections used to reduce signs of ageing. The GCD heard that Miss Tilley wrote prescriptions for similar medications, including Azzalure and Bocouture, as well as dermal fillers.
Miss Tilley, who is expecting Mr Mattinson’s child, admitted wrongdoing last night, saying: ‘Young people make mistakes. Botox was prescription-only. It was a case of using it on friends and family and not wanting to pay the prescription.’