A couple have avoided jail after admitting selling illegal skin-whitening products online.

Jonathan and Holiness Ikpere are thought to have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds from selling banned bleaching concoctions from their home in Towpath Mead, Southsea.

They imported large quantities of cosmetics from countries in West Africa before selling them on and were caught in the UK's first national investigation into the online sale of dangerous skin-whitening products.


Jonathan Ikpere, a PhD student studying at Portsmouth University, set up various PayPal accounts to collect orders for eBay purchases, which had a turnover of more than £100,000.

Southwark Trading Standards, who led the investigation, seized nearly 3,000 illegal and dangerous skin lightening products from their home.

Paul Gander, team leader of Southwark Trading Standards, said: "The Ikperes imported a large volume of cosmetics from Nigeria and made a small volume themselves on their premises. A lot of this stuff comes into this country from West Africa, Pakistan and even China.

When officers raided their home they discovered a mixing bowl in the kitchen, where the couple's own brand of skin lighteners were being created. Holiness Ikpere even marketed the products with her own face on the labels.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/married-couple-sentenced-for-selling-toxic-skin-whitening-treatments-online-11830076

On a lighter note, hope they got a light sentence.

To think they once had a bright future.

Lol...half-caste lotion indeed.

What was once a degrading word (half-caste), is now a fad amongst the ones with no sense of self worth.

Na wa

oyibo de use bleaching

I’m sure this has higher quality than the ones naija babes like Tacha are buying from Bobriski

Young03:
oyibo de use bleaching

Na our people.

daddytime:
Lol...half-caste lotion indeed.

What was once a degrading word (half-caste), is now a fad amongst the ones with no sense of self worth.

Na wa

lol the world is big enough for all of us.
Why you dey vex?

Young03:
oyibo de use bleaching

yes! Them wan black!

Sane country...

but they will come and sell their own here nothing will happen

omo see hustling

Them think say na naija dem dey where anyhow bleaching cream are being bought in bulks by those pple from the waste. From their bobrisky to their future Lagos governor to their alafin

Commentor:
On a lighter note, hope they got a light sentence.

To think they once had a bright future.

These puns flew over the heads of 99% of our esteemed readership.

For these two collared fraudsters, the light at the end of the tunnel is an approaching train.

All the same, the PhD candidate must be give credit for his efforts in experimental chemistry, all conducted in his kitchen.

I love this quote "When officers raided their home they discovered a mixing bowl in the kitchen, where the couple's own brand of skin lighteners were being created. Holiness Ikpere even marketed the products with her own face on the labels."

How can one steal a product online.........

why

Few Nigerians always disgracing us abroad.

bobrisky

Even before reading the post I knew what their names would sound like.

they're just giving Nigeria a bad name


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i build websites/blogs for 12k only, see signature for contact

Oyibo akamere everywhere

u said they sentenced them, yet in ur write up, u said they avoid jail. pls clear us.

But them de flood here with their own na

Skin cancer will be rampant in the near future. Every Tom, Dick and Harry own a beauty cream on Instagram these days.

I hope the lady is not llamina or 1Sharon.

Is it a crime to sell bleaching cream there?

Many people won’t know the dangers they’ve put their skin into till 20-30 years time

Commentor:
On a lighter note, hope they got a light sentence.

To think they once had a bright future.

Going for a pun combo early in the afternoon ehn ? nice one