A mother-of-three died from an anaesthetic overdose after a botched facelift op carried out by a gynaecologist who gave facelifts in her free time.

Victim Elena Ritsman, 39, had reportedly paid the doctor RUB 15,200 (GBP 162.50) for the procedure in Balashikha, in the suburbs of the Russian capital Moscow.

The doctor – a gynaecologist named as Tatyana Shelest in local media – has now been jailed for three years after a court reportedly heard how she gave her patient five times the safe dose.

And when she realised she had botched the lidocaine local anaesthetic dose, she begged colleagues to keep it secret, the court reportedly heard.

She reportedly told colleagues: “Be quiet, otherwise they will put me in jail.'”

Although normally safe, overdoses of the drug can cause unconsciousness and comas, and prove fatal.

Elena – who has children aged six, eight and 10 – and the medic Shelest were reportedly friends.

But when the procedure went wrong right after Elena was anaesthetised, Shelest did not tell emergency doctors about the overdose, the court reportedly heard.

She reportedly spent 20 minutes trying to revive Elena before calling colleagues for help.

By the time they got Elena’s heart beating again, 36 minutes had passed, according to local media.

But instead of sending the patient for specialised treatment, she was then left another day.

Shelest is quoted as telling the court: “We just injected lidocaine, didn’t inject anything else, she suddenly became [ill]. I thought that she might have fainted.”

She added: “I did mouth-to-mouth breathing, chest compressions.”

The victim’s mother Nadezhda Prokopishina said: “Instead of two per cent lidocaine, my daughter was injected with ten per cent lidocaine, which exceeds the allowable rate by several times.

“She told her colleagues: ‘Be quiet, otherwise they will put me in jail.’ They gave her two per cent lidocaine doses. And she changed the ampoules.”

Elena was declared brain dead and seven months later, her body finally gave up.