British Breaking Bad Gone Wrong: Chemistry Professor Jailed Over $4Million Amphetamine

British Breaking Bad: Chemistry lecturer dubbed 'The Professor' who plotted to make £4million of amphetamine every TWO DAYS in home drugs lab is jailed

• Ryszard Jakubczyk plotted to make 88lbs of amphetamine every two days
• Hoped to produce drug in laboratory, before supplying it across country
• Police swooped on chemistry lecturer as he tested batch with associates
• He has been jailed for nine years for conspiring to produce and sell drug
• Accomplices Ernest Skorupa, 36, and Ewa Lyzwa-Cias, 60, also imprisoned
• Today, crime officer described plot as 'real-life version of Breaking Bad'
• U.S. TV series sees main character, Walter White, diagnosed with cancer
• He produces and sells purest methamphetamine to secure family's future

 

 

'Real-life Walter White': Ryszard Jakubczyk (left) has been jailed after plotting a Breaking Bad-style operation to produce £4million of amphetamine every two days. Right, Walter White (Bryan Cranston) in the U.S. TV show

 A chemistry lecturer has been jailed after plotting a Breaking Bad-style operation to produce £4million of amphetamine every two days. 

Ryszard Jakubczyk, 61, dubbed 'the Professor', planned to make the stimulant drug in a secret laboratory in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

He hoped to produce a staggering 88lbs of almost pure amphetamine every 48 hours - before supplying it to drug dealers across the country.

 

Discovered: The 61-year-old, dubbed 'the Professor', planned to make the stimulant drug in a secret laboratory in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Above, test batches of almost pure amphetamine are pictured in packets and tins

Concealed: He hoped to produce a staggering 88lbs of almost pure amphetamine every 48 hours - before selling it to drug dealers across the country. Above, the stimulant drug is concealed in the back of a car

The drug - which induces effects of euphoria, alertness and increased energy - was among the highest grades of purity uncovered in the UK, according to investigators.

Jakubczyk, from Poland, was planning carry out the operation with the help of accomplices Piotr Turek, 35, Ernest Skorupa, 36, and Ewa Lyzwa-Cias, 60, Leeds Crown Court heard.

Daily Mail