Emotions were high in a Los Angeles federal courtroom after US District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett sentenced Dr Salvador Plasencia to 30 months in prison for supplying ketamine to actor Matthew Perry in the weeks before his death. The ruling marked the first sentencing in a wider investigation into how the Friends star obtained the dissociative anaesthetic via an underground network within Hollywood.
The actor, 54, died on 28 October 2023 from the acute effects of ketamine, with contributing factors including drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine. He was found unresponsive in the hot tub at his Los Angeles home. The cause of death was ruled as an accident by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's office.
