Director/PDMR Shareholding

Phytopharm PLC
14 December 2007



Phytopharm plc

14 December 2007


DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING - Purchase of Ordinary Shares (the 'Shares') in
Phytopharm plc (the 'Company') by Directors of the Company under its employee
Share Incentive Plan (the 'SIP').

The SIP trustee, Equiniti Share Plan Trustees Limited (the 'Trustee'), notified
the Company on 12 December 2007 that the following Directors of the Company
acquired Shares under the SIP on 7 December 2007, in each case, held by the
Trustee:

Director              Number of       Aggregate number of Shares held beneficially
                     Shares acquired* following acquisition (across all accounts)

Daryl Rees               782                           20,445

Piers Morgan             782                           20,445

*The number of Shares acquired includes 391 Partnership Shares purchased by each
of these Directors at 32 pence and 391 Matching Shares issued to each of these
Directors under a Block Listing arrangement. Both partnership and matching
elements are registered in the name of the Trustee.

The SIP operates as follows:

Each month the Trustee uses participants' contributions (which may not exceed
£125 per participant per month) to purchase shares in the market. These shares
are called 'Partnership Shares'.

At the same time the Company allots to participants via the Trustee one
'Matching Share' for every Partnership Share purchased that month. These
Matching Shares vest with the employee three years from the date of issue.




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