Businessman’s toxic slimming pills killed student
A businessman accused of killing a vulnerable student by selling her toxic slimming pills has denied manslaughter. Bernard Rebelo, 30, and his partners 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 Parry from Shrewsbury in Shropshire who suffered from bulimia. Miss Parry, a student at Wrexham Glyndwr University in Wales, died within hours of…