A man has appeared in court accused of making fake coronavirus test kits and sending them across the world, police said. Frank Ludlow, 59, of West Sussex, was arrested at a Post Office near his home on Friday after 60 Covid-19 kits were seized by police in the US.
The kits, which were intercepted by Customs and Border Protection Agency officers in Los Angeles on Wednesday, were labelled as "Anti-Pathogenic treatment" and had been sent from the UK, City of London Police said.They allegedly contained chemicals which are "extremely harmful" given the user is instructed to wash and rinse their mouth with them, police said.Ludlow was arrested by the City of London Police's Intellectual Property Crime Unit after it was contacted by its US