A doctor who pleaded guilty to selling ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before the Friends star’s overdose death has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison.

Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence plus two years of probation to 44-year-old Dr Salvador Plasencia in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles.

The judge emphasised that Plasencia did not provide the ketamine that killed Perry, but told him: “You and others helped Mr Perry on the road to such an ending by continuing to feed his ketamine addiction.

“You exploited Mr Perry’s addiction for your own profit.”

Plasencia was led away in handcuffs as his mother cried loudly in the courtroom.

Perry’s mother and two half-sisters gave tearful victim impact statements before the sentencing.

“The world mourns my

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