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PPE Medpro Ordered to Repay £121.9m After High Court Finds Covid Gown Contract Breach

The judge found the gowns were not contractually sterile because no validated sterilisation process was demonstrated.

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Doug Barrowman and Baroness Mone. She exploited her Tory connections to help her husband’s company, MedPro, win £200m worth of deals to sell PPE to the government as the pandemic struck (Photo: Max Mumby/Getty)
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Overview

  • Mrs Justice Cockerill ordered PPE Medpro to pay £121,999,219 by 4pm on 15 October 2025 after ruling the company breached the contract for 25 million surgical gowns.
  • The court said the gowns could not be used as sterile gowns, rejected the government’s claim for storage costs, and dismissed PPE Medpro’s counterclaim.
  • Evidence cited included the absence of a validated sterilisation process, missing notified body numbers required for CE compliance, and 103 of 140 tested gowns failing sterility checks.
  • Company filings show PPE Medpro lodged a notice to appoint an administrator on the eve of the ruling.
  • Baroness Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman deny wrongdoing and allege scapegoating, while an NCA criminal inquiry and earlier CPS-backed asset-freezing orders remain in place.