Crime

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has claimed that Boots’ parent company “systematically pressured its pharmacists to fill prescriptions quickly”, despite clear “red flags” and patient deaths.

Multinational e-commerce company eBay worked “closely” with the MHRA last year to block almost two million unregulated medicine “violations” before they were sold to the public, C+D has learned.

A Doncaster pharmacy worker has been “rumbled” after she created a “false identity” to speak to a prison inmate and steal medication.

Social media has become the new “front line” for the sale of counterfeit weight loss drugs with 150 online posts “actively” selling them targeted by the MHRA last year, C+D has learned.

A pharmacy technician has been removed from the register after he “took advantage” of a teenager who he messaged on Snapchat and gave cannabis “to facilitate the offence of rape”, the regulator has revealed.

The daughter of a pharmacy worker who became a key witness in prosecuting the “Killer Clown” John Wayne Gacy is releasing a book featuring diary entries that shed a light on the impact of the murders on survivors.

The High Court of Justice has called out the “gross incompetence and unfairness” of the GPhC’s handling of a pharmacist’s alleged role in “fraudulent” medication sales overseas, ordering the regulator to “undertake the whole process again”.

A 27-year-old man has been jailed for 12 months for cultivating cannabis plants in a former Lloydspharmacy in Pembroke with an estimated street value of up to £500,000.

Two teenagers have appeared in court after subjecting a pharmacy to “terrible vandalism”, as an MP has warned that it is part of a criminal “pattern”.

A pharmacist has pleaded not guilty to causing the death of an 18-year-old by careless driving after a crash with the teenage motorcyclist near Brighton in the summer of 2022.