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Doctor who sold ketamine to Friends star Matthew Perry is jailed | BBC News
A California doctor who supplied ketamine to Friends star Matthew Perry has been sentenced to 30 months in prison in the US. The actor was 54 when he died from a ketamine overdose in 2023, after years struggling with addiction and depression.
Dr Salvador Plasencia was one of five charged in a US federal investigation into how Perry acquired the anaesthetic drug through an underground supply network in Hollywood.
The actor’s family asked the judge to impose a lengthy prison sentence, calling Plasencia the “most culpable” of the five people charged. They talked about their struggle to understand why he had repeatedly supplied Perry with drugs.
Perry’s mother said Dr Plasencia had abused his position, an accusation which the doctor admitted. He told the court: “I failed myself. There is no excuse. I can’t undo what’s been done. I know that. I should have protected him, as his mother said. I’m just so sorry.”
Plasencia had pleaded guilty to four counts of distributing ketamine. The charges carried a maximum of 40 years in prison, although prosecutors had asked for a sentence of three years.
The four other people charged in the case – including another doctor, his assistant and two people who supplied the ketamine dose that killed Matthew Perry – have also pleaded guilty and are set to be sentenced in the coming months.
Best known for playing Chandler Bing in Friends, the sitcom star had spoken publicly for years about his mental health problems and drug addiction.
Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Peter Bose in Los Angeles.
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Undercover: Solicitor offers to help ‘mini-mart owner’ dodge fine for illegal worker | BBC News
A solicitor has been secretly filmed by the BBC explaining how he could make a £45,000 illegal working fine go away.
Mohammad Alias Yousaf – also known as Alias – made the claim to an undercover reporter, who was posing as a mini-mart owner facing a fine for employing an illegal worker.
The Bradford-based solicitor told his potential client he could avoid paying the fine if our undercover reporter could find someone overseas prepared to declare themselves the owner of the mini-mart.
Alias has denied ever providing such advice to anyone or giving false information to the Home Office.
At least £150m is currently owed to the government in uncollected illegal working fines, according to Home Office figures obtained by the BBC.
In response to our investigation, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced a review of the way illegal working fines are issued and collected.
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In her first broadcast interview since a new book of her life, ‘Is it too late to make a run for it?’, has hit shelves, Dame Judi Dench invited Emma Barnett from Radio 4’s Today programme to her home.
The book is written with her close friend and fellow actor Brendan O’Hea, who sat alongside Dame Judi for a special conversation about her acting, the realities of ageing and some Shakespeare thrown in for good measure.
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