
The grieving father of a younger girl who was killed by banned diet pills flew 1,500 miles to the Ukraine to confront the dealer.
Doug Shipsey stated he needed to safe justice for his daughter Beth, who suffered a cardiac arrest after taking the deadly pills.
He confronted fitness center fanatic Andrei Shepelev and secured a rare confession regardless of admitting he feared he would possibly get shot.
Doug, from Worcester, held up an image of Beth as he instructed the dealer: ‘I want you to look into my daughter’s eyes and apologise for promoting her the pills that killed her.’

Beth, an animal rights activist, died aged 21 in February 2017 after taking so-called ‘fat-burning’ pills despatched by Shepelev.
He admitted processing the deadly chemical that killed her, which he then put it into capsules and despatched to England hidden inside a DVD case.
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Experts have stated the pills, which comprise dinitrophenol – so-called DNP – are ‘extremely dangerous.’
DNP, which was initially designed as an industrial pesticide, has been linked to 23 deaths within the UK since 2012.
Shepelev, 31, admitted to Doug that the pills got here from him, in accordance to the Daily Mail.
The dealer reportedly stated: ‘I’m sorry, however I simply needed to make some cash.
‘I’m sorry I’m not crying, however I can say I really feel sorry. If I knew your daughter would [die] I might by no means promote her something.’
Shepelev added: ‘It was just a business idea to buy Ukrainian cheap stuff and sell it to the UK, just for money.’
He claims he is not promoting to the UK.

Doug had travelled from his dwelling to the Shepelev’s grubby one-bed flat in Volochysk, Khmelnytskyi, western Ukraine.
Beth’s dad admitted: ‘‘I didn’t understand how [Shepelev] would react – I although he would possibly pull out an AK-47 and shoot me.
‘When I stood in the door of Shepelev’s flat, with its partitions stained yellow from his drug manufacturing, I had to restrain myself from wanting to wring his neck.
‘But that’s not me – I simply needed him to admit what he’s completed, and apologise for it to Beth’s household, whereas trying into her eyes and mine. I need to ship a message to different sellers in loss of life – we, the family of their victims, will come for them.’

Ukrainian police raided Shepelev’s flat in November however he was later launched after officers stated they discovered no hint of DHP.
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Doug has handed on particulars of the confession to the native drug squad.
He believes Shepelev may face costs of getting ready an explosive as DNP turns into extremely risky when dried.
Beth’s household are campaigning to make it simpler for the authorities to shut down web sites that make it simple to acquire such deadly pills.
An inquest dominated Beth died by suicide however the household need to problem the decision and have additionally blamed delays at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
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