Failed teeth op woman admits drug driving

A DJ who said her nose collapsed after dental work in Turkey went wrong has admitted drug driving.

Leanne Jefferis, from Telford, was banned from driving for two years after being stopped by police three times in October and November 2025.

Jefferis, also known as Leanne Abeyance, had benzoylecgonine in her system on two occasions with cocaine and benzoylecgonine found in November. Benzoylecgonine is a major metabolite of cocaine and created in the body when the drug is broken down.

The 41-year-old, who had set up two fundraising campaigns for reconstructive surgery, said on social media she had not misled anyone and had simply been sharing her experience of surgery abroad going wrong.

Both campaigns on the GoFundMe website have now been removed.

Jefferis appeared at Telford Magistrates Court for sentencing on 10 February.

Documents showed she had 800 micrograms per litre of blood of benzoylecgonine in her system on two dates in October, while in November she was found to have 11 micrograms per litre of blood of cocaine and 664 micrograms of benzoylecgonine in her system.

The legal limit for cocaine is 10 micrograms per litre of blood.

The legal limit for benzoylecgonine is 50 micrograms per litre of blood - meaning Jefferis was more than 13 times the limit when she was stopped.

She was given a community order until 9 February 2027, a two-year driving ban and was ordered to pay £85 in prosecution costs.

On her social media accounts, Jefferis, who has described her surgeries as her "Warrior Queen journey" denied cocaine was found in her system, adding that her mental state was "out of the window" following her ordeal in Turkey.

She said that it was wrong that the issues with her teeth were being made out to be "anything but dental", adding that she had "proof from the hundreds of appointments I've been to and still going to".

She later commented: "The whole Warrior Queen is for botched surgery's gone wrong. I have helped hundreds of people and they have helped me."

In January, Jefferis told the BBC she was in constant pain, which she controlled with sleeping tablets and morphine every day, and felt too self-conscious to go outside due to her botched surgery on her teeth.

She had previously told the BBC she had been left with a painful, infected face and the implants could not be removed due to the infections.

She said her dental work also caused a collapsed septum which the NHS would not fix as it was deemed a cosmetic procedure.

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