WOMAN FLOGS £40 LOTIONS ONLINE
premises were raided in February last year – and she is still on bail.
She said: “When I got out of prison my passport had been taken away, the banks had been cleared out and I was £3,000 overdrawn.
“I went from having a wonderful business I loved working in, even though I was doing 70 hours a week, to having it ripped out from under me and being bankrupt – all without a single day in court. This is French justice.
“I don’t feel I’d want to support France any more, a country so abusive to human rights. It’s comparable to Turkey.”
On a Facebook page to promote her cream she writes: “This not only ensures healthy skin, but may also help to enable the body to fight off infections, repair and renew its cells and defend itself against pathogens and cancers.”
Lesley’s daughter Jasmin raised £10,000 from a crowdfunding page to help pay her mum’s legal fees. She said people had described the cream as “almost supernatural”.
After her home was raided Lesley was taken to Paris, where a judge questioned her association with Noakes, who claims GCMAF can cure cancer.
The so-called miracle drug contains a vitamin D binding protein called glycoprotein, which it is claimed boosts the immune system to help the body fight cancer naturally.
Small clinical trials in Japan were dismissed by other experts as they did not take scans of patients’ tumours or analyse their immune systems. But online enthusiasts insist it is a “miracle cure” that is being suppressed by drugs manufacturers.
The unlicensed drug is banned in the UK. GCMAF is marketed by Noakes’s Guernsey-based company, Immuno Biotech.
The firm’s website claims GCMAF treats a range of conditions, from allergies and asthma to Crohn’s disease, HIV, Parkinson’s disease and autism.
At Southwark crown court in November he denied two counts of conspiracy relating to the manufacture and supply of an unlicensed medicine, and possessing an unlicensed medicine.
He also denied money laundering in relation to £7million paid into Immuno’s Guernsey bank accounts. The case has yet to be heard. Lesley left the firm three years ago after 12 months working on customer feedback.
But she says she is convinced GCMAF works, claiming she saw evidence of its capabilities while running Facebook pages where customers discussed the protein.
Lesley said: “I spoke to this woman who had a son or daughter who was severely autistic.
“After using it she was singing and playing the piano. The mother was crying tears of happiness.
“I find it amazing that something so amazing can be banned when they can’t ban acid, when there were 450 acid attacks in London last year.”
Lesley is being investigated by the French central office for the fight against damage to the environment and public health, part of the national police service.
A spokesman said: “We cannot give out information on this investigation as it is ongoing.”
They added they were working with the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. The MHRA said it was unable to comment.