RAF laser surgery claim optometrist enjoyed ‘special relationship’ with customers

  An optometrist who claimed laser eye surgery was ‘mandatory’ for RAF pilots enjoyed a ‘special relationship’ with his customers, a hearing was told. John Margetts made a series of false claims to an undercover BBC reporter posing as a patient at Optical Express in Bristol in September 2015. Margetts claimed that refractive eye surgery was mandatory for RAF pilots, was fully safe and resulted in ‘much better than 20/20 vision’. He referred to ‘intermolecular gravitational traction’ and made other…