Founder of firm responsible for faulty breast implants jailed

The founder of the French breast implant firm linked to a global health scare has been jailed.

Jean-Claude Mas had failed to pay the €100,000 bail set when he was charged with "involuntary injury" in January.

His firm, which made PIP implants containing industrial grade silicone, was shut down in 2010.

An estimated 400,000 women in 65 countries, including some in Ireland, were fitted with the implants, which some Governments have ordered to be removed.

Seventy-two-year-old Mas, who has insisted the prosthesis is not dangerous, has been jailed in Marseilles.