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A court has decided not to hand a prison sentence to a man who stole supplies of anti-diabetic medication Ozempic from the pharmacy where he worked.

Akshay Sennik, 31, stole two Ozempic pens worth £75 each from the stock room in New Cross Pharmacy in South-East London between September 2023 and March 2024 and sold them on.

He pleaded guilty to theft by employee and selling a prescription medicine without a prescription at Bromley Magistrates’ Court in November. The court sentenced him to a two-year conditional discharge yesterday.

According to The Sun, Sennik, who had no previous criminal convictions, sold the pens on “the black market” and the court heard his offending was driven by his alcoholism.

Various media outlets described Sennik as a pharmacist but he does not appear on the General Pharmaceutical Council’s register and is not believed to have been either a pharmacist or pharmacy technician but another member of the pharmacy’s team.

Independent Community Pharmacist has asked the General Pharmaceutical Council for clarification.