Businessman faces trial over slimming pills death

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A businessman and two partners accused of killing a vulnerable student by selling her toxic slimming pills have gone on trial for manslaughter. Bernard Rebelo, 30, along with Albert Huynh, 32, and Mary Roberts, 32, allegedly put food supplements on the market containing the fat-burning chemical dinitrophenol (DNP). The pills are said to have caused the death of 21-year-old Eloise Aimee Parryl, from Shrewsbury, who suffered from bulimia. Miss Parry, a student at Wrexham Glyndwr University, died within hours of…

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