THE MOUNTAIN OF PPE WASTE YOU PAID FOR

Kit sold to Tories by millionaire couple among sprawl of shame

- BEN TURNER

THE mountain of dumped Covid PPE blighting this beauty spot includes batches that helped a couple rake in an estimated £1.9 billion of taxpayer cash.

Unopened boxes of gowns, gloves and masks later found to be unsafe due to incorrect storage were sold to the Government by Sarah and Richard Stoute in the single largest pandemic PPE contract.

Before Covid struck, their firm Full Support Healthcare only made a relatively modest profit. The Stoutes are since said to have since embarked on a spending spree, buying a £30 million Caribbean villa, an equestrian centre and a country mansion in the south of England for £6m. The pair also own a £lm superyacht. And last month Mrs Stoute - an NHS nurse turned saleswoman shared on Facebook a photo of herself in a designer dress worth thousands of pounds.