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>Bogus 'Viagra' doctor is jailed > >Valentine traded on people's need for a normal life. >A bogus doctor who ran one of Europe's biggest >counterfeit Viagra factories has been jailed. >Allen Valentine's business in Wembley, with a >warehouse in Watford, could produce 500,000 tablets a >day. > >Harrow Crown Court heard on Friday the operation was >"one of the largest illegal drug and pharmaceutical >production operations in Europe". > >Valentine, 44, from Harrow, who admitted supplying >class C drugs, was jailed for five-and-a-half years. > >The court heard Valentine's "sophisticated" >international operation, which also churned out >steroids and cartons of potentially dangerous >anti-anxiety pills, risked the health of the public >and is believed to have made him millions. > > Viagra and diazepam are no longer the subject of >jokes. They are for many people the constituents to >restore normality to the value of living. > >Judge Barrington Black >Just 24 hours before he was arrested, the >father-of-two offered £1.25m cash for a palatial >mansion in one of the country's most sought-after >areas and arranged delivery of a new £26,500 Jeep >Cherokee. > >Valentine, of Kynaston Wood, pleaded guilty to >conspiracy to supply Class C drugs between January 1, >2001 and April 21 this year, as well as two similar >charges involving contraventions of the Trade Marks >Act and Medicines Act. > >Passing sentence Judge Barrington Black told the drugs >producer, a former sales rep for Viagra maker Pfizer, >that he had traded on people's need for a "normal >life". > >'Serious matter' > >He said "considerable" sums were invested by >pharmaceutical companies to develop products in a >"controlled and safe" way. > >"It is a serious matter when the public are hoodwinked >to the extent that such products, although >structurally akin to the correct ones, are being >produced in an environment without the necessary >precautions... in a makeshift and potentially >dangerous manner. > >"Viagra and diazepam are no longer the subject of >jokes. They are for many people the constituents to >restore normality to the value of living." > >Also imprisoned was Davin Pattni, 27, of Beverley >Gardens, Stanmore, Middlesex, who got three years >after pleading guilty to two of the conspiracy counts. > >A third defendant, Paul Austin, 40, of Hampden Road, >Harrow - regarded by police as a low level "gopher" - >received an 18-month sentence suspended for two years >for one of the conspiracy charges he had admitted.

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