Nurofen tamperer gets 18 months

A codeine addict who contaminated packets of Nurofen Plus in a ruse to fund his habit was jailed by a UK court today for 18 months.

A codeine addict who contaminated packets of Nurofen Plus in a ruse to fund his habit was jailed by a UK court today for 18 months.

Christopher McGuire cost the manufacturers £2.4m and saved himself just £7 by placing strips of an anti-psychotic drug in empty packets of the painkiller and swapping them for new packets at pharmacies.

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