Van drivers entrusted to deliver crucial medicines to pharmacies across the North West instead stole them and allowed them to be moved into the black market.
Richard Gaskell, Tristan Keddie and David Tilley were all working as van drivers transporting vital pharmaceutical products to pharmacies during the Covid pandemic. All three men were subcontracted to work for Warrington-based AAH Pharmaceuticals, a medicines manufacturing company responsible for supplying pharmacies across the region
Yet Liverpool Crown Court heard today that in late 2020 the men took part in a scheme to steal medicines worth thousands so they could be sold on illegally. Martyn Walsh, prosecuting, said an as yet unidentified individual would make bogus orders on behalf of pharmacies using the phone line, and the men would then steal those products for them to be sold on.
