Mosman pharmacist sentenced for vaccine supply

A Sydney pharmacist claimed that she was trying to help women in Hong Kong and China after illegally providing more than 2000 cancer vaccines for export.

But the magistrate who imprisoned Katherine Gong Wednesday did not accept his intentions. He was honored when she provided the nine doses of Gardasil at a profit of about $ 30,000.

Ms. Gong was hoping to leave the local Downing center court fined, but was threatened with handcuffs after Magistrate Jennifer Atkinson sentenced her to eight months' imprisonment with six months of non-parole. Conditional liberation.

The lawyer of this 35-year-old man, who pleaded guilty to three counts of prohibiting the wholesale of certain substances, immediately appealed the sentence.