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Doctor who supplied ketamine to late Friends star Matthew Perry jailed
A doctor who pleaded guilty to illegally supplying ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before the star's death has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.
Salvador Plasencia, who operated an urgent-care clinic outside Los Angeles, is the first of five people to be sentenced in connection with the death of the Friends actor. Perry was found drowned in the hot tub at his home after taking ketamine in October 2023.
"You and others helped Mr Perry on the road to such an ending by continuing to feed his ketamine addiction," Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett told Plasencia as she handed down the sentence. "You exploited Mr Perry's addiction for your own profit." During the hearing, Plasencia broke into tears as he spoke about the day he would have to tell his now two-year-old son "about the time I didn't protect another mother's son".
Apologising directly to Perry's family, he said: "I should have protected him." The doctor's mother cried loudly in the courtroom as he was led out in handcuffs. Ahead of the sentencing, Perry's mother Suzanne Perry and stepfather Keith Morrison described those involved in supplying ketamine to the star illegally as "jackals.
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