Trial for ‘toxic slimming pills’ trader

A businessman accused of killing a vulnerable student by selling her toxic slimming pills is set to stand trial in April. 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…