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A chemistry teacher masterminded a Breaking Bad-style operation to flood Britain’s drugs market with almost pure amphetamine.

Ryszard Jakubczyk planned to make 88lbs of it – worth £4 million – every TWO DAYS from his secret lab in a mirror of the hit TV show’s plot.

Astonished detectives who caught the lecturer and his gang dubbed him a real-life Walter White, the chemistry teacher who uses his expertise to make the purest crystal meth in the cult series.

Jakubczyk – known as ‘the Professor’ in the underworld – produced an almost 80 per cent pure version of amphetamine. Investigators say it was among the highest grades they have uncovered in the UK.

National Crime Agency officers put Jakubczyk, 61, under surveillance after a tip-off. They waited until the Polish gang “cooked” a test batch before swooping on the lab in a garden building hidden by trees in Grantham, Lincs.

Inside was an underground bunker where chemicals were stashed.

Jakubczyk’s accomplice Piotr Turek, 35, was head of distribution and 783g of the drug was found hidden in his car’s air filter. The lecturer’s lover Ewa Lyzwa-Cias, 60, had a stash in a dressing gown pocket.

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Lead NCA investigator Dave Archer said: “It was as if they had used the plot of Breaking Bad to come up with the whole idea.

“You’d expect to see ‘pure’ amphetamine at 40-50 per cent – but this was 78 per cent. It would have made them millions.”

Jakubczyk was jailed for nine years. Ernest Skorupa, 36, who lived at the house where the lab was found got seven. Turek received eight and Lyzwa-Cias five years at Leeds Crown Court. All were convicted of conspiracy to produce and supply amphetamine.

Breaking Bad stars Bryan Cranston as White who turns to producing methamphetamine to secure his family’s future after he is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer.

Officer Archer said: “We did research watching the series on Netflix and I bought our lawyer the box set after the trial.”