A woman known as the “Ketamine Queen”, who supplied the fatal dose of the drug that killed actor Matthew Perry, has been sentenced to 15 years in jail.
Jasveen Sangha initially denied the charges but agreed to change her plea in a signed statement last year, just a few weeks before she had been due to stand trial.
In a victim impact statement submitted ahead of the sentencing hearing, Perry‘s stepmother Debbie described Sangha as “heartless” and called for the judge to give her the maximum jail time.
Matthew Perry’s mother Suzanne Morrison and her husband Keith Morrison were in court for today’s hearing. Pic: AP/ Damian Dovarganes
The Friends star died in October 2023, aged 54. He had struggled with addiction for years, but released a memoir a year before his death during a period of being clean.
He had been using ketamine through his regular doctor as a legal, but off-label, treatment for depression, but in the weeks before his death had also started to seek more of the drug illegally.
Five people, including doctors and the actor’s personal assistant, have pleaded guilty to various charges connected with his death. Sangha is the third person to be sentenced.
In December last year, Salvador Plasencia, a doctor, was jailed for two-and-a-half years for illegally supplying ketamine to Perry in the weeks before his death.
Another doctor, Mark Chavez, was sentenced to eight months home confinement after admitting selling ketamine to Plasencia.
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