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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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Pope Leo XIV has said he has “no fear of the Trump administration”, after his criticism of the Iran war drew scorn from President Donald Trump.
On Sunday, the US President called the Pope “weak on crime and terrible on foreign policy”, and posted a now-deleted AI image of himself depicted as a Christ-like figure.The posts caused outrage among Catholics and the religious right, but he has said he will not apologise to the Pope.
We speak to BBC presenter and author Edward Stourton, who has reported on religious affairs and US politics for decades, about what happens when an American president takes on an American Pope.
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00:00 Introduction
01:11 Feud timeline so far
06:28 Confrontation between
08:02 Pope Leo, the diplomat
10:01 American Catholicism
12:36 The ‘eternal’ viewpoint of the church
13:42 Pope John Paul II comparisons
14:40 Religious rhetoric around the war in Iran
16:48 American evangelisms relationship with the Pope
17:47 Donald Trump’s use of Christian imagery
19:50 Who is really the most powerful American in the world?
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Iran declares strait of Hormuz open but few ships are passing through vital sea lane | BBC News
Commercial shipping is not flowing freely once again through the Strait of Hormuz, despite Iran declared that the vital shipping lane is open again.
Shipping companies are still said to be concerned about mines, as well as new rules Iran has imposed on them using the Strait.
While the markets have rallied, there remains a lot of uncertainty over the status of the strait, which normally carries around a fifth of the world’s oil and gas supplies.
Iran declared it was reopening the shipping channel after a truce agreed in the war between Israel and the Iranian backed militia group, Hezbollah. However Donald Trump has insisted that the US blockade of Iranian ports will continue, until a permanent peace deal is agreed, in America’s own war, with Iran.
While the current ceasefire between the US and Iran still appears to be holding, it’s due to run out next week, with both sides still far apart on agreeing the conditions for a lasting deal.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith, Dharshini David and Lyse Doucet.
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As the war in Iran enters its 48th day, the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet reports from the country’s capital, Tehran.
It comes after talks in Islamabad between the US, Iran and mediators in Pakistan failed to bring about a deal over the weekend.
The White House says discussions around a possible second round of peace talks between the US and Iran are “ongoing” and “productive” – but no time or place have been confirmed. The two-week ceasefire is due to end on 22 April.
US President Donald Trump said today Israeli and Lebanese leaders have agreed a 10-day ceasefire.
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