Jailed for selling illegal and dangerous tooth gel online

Sarah Coles
Updated
Chelmsford court
Chelmsford court

Chris Radburn/PA

Barrington Armstrong-Thorpe, a 68-year-old from Clacton in Essex, has been jailed for 16 months, for selling tooth-whitening gel containing as much as 100 times the legal level of hydrogen peroxide.

During the trial he was condemned for lying to his online buyers, and putting them potentially at harm. And he's not the first online seller to have taken such a cavalier attitude to shoppers.
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