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'Acne cream caused boy's plane crash'

Wayne Veysey12 April 2012

The parents of a teenager who crashed a light plane into a Florida skyscraper are suing the makers of an acne cream for $70 million (£49m), saying it made him psychotic.

Charles Bishop, 15, flew a Cessna into the Bank of America building in Tampa on 5 January. Now his family have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against drug maker Hoffman-La Roche, alleging the company's Accutane acne medicine is an unsafe product that can cause psychosis, depression and suicide.

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