The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has warned that NHS transplant patients may have received stolen body parts.

New York gangs have apparently been taking body parts and faking death certificates to make it appear that the "donors" were younger and healthier than they actually were at their time of death.

77 body parts exported to the UK by US firm Biomedical Tissue Services could potentially be part of the over 1,000 believed stolen. The FDA has ordered Biomedical Tissue Services to cease operations.