Grieving dad travels 1,500 miles to confront dealer who supplied deadly diet pills to his daughter

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.’

FILE PICTURE - Linked to today's NTI story NTIDIET, January 8, 2018, about an inquest at Worcester Coroners Court into the death of Bethany Shipsey who died after taking and overdose of diet pills. FILE PICTURE - Bethany Victoria Shipsey. A scandal-hit hospital has hit a new low after a grieving father's Freedom of Information (FOI) request revealed that it has had 136 'serious incidents' in less than a year. See NTI story NTINHS. Doug Shipsey, 52, requested the information following the death of his troubled daughter Bethany, 21, who passed away after taking an overdose of diet pills. The sex abuse victim was not treated as a priority at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital, despite claiming she had taken 30 pills of 2,4-Dinitrophenol, known as DNP. Her parents, Doug and Carole, 57, were left stunned when they were told that their daughter could not be treated because the hospital was "overwhelmed" by patients. Mr Shipsey says he pleaded with a nurse to treat his daughter, warning them how serious the weight-loss pills - which she had bought from Ukraine - could be. She was taken to a resuscitation room, but was moved to make way for others, and only had a tracheotomy for respiratory arrest when it was too late and died. — Beth Shipsey died in February 2017 after a deadly coronary heart assault (Picture: SWNS)

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.

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.

FILE PICTURE - Linked to todays NTI story NTIDIET, February 14, 2018, about an inquest at Worcester Coroners Court into the death of Bethany Shipsey who died after taking and overdose of diet pills. FILE PICTURE - Doug and Carole Shipsey with a picture of their daughter Bethany Victoria Shipsey. A scandal-hit hospital has hit a new low after a grieving father's Freedom of Information (FOI) request revealed that it has had 136 'serious incidents' in less than a year. See NTI story NTINHS. Doug Shipsey, 52, requested the information following the death of his troubled daughter Bethany, 21, who passed away after taking an overdose of diet pills. The sex abuse victim was not treated as a priority at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital, despite claiming she had taken 30 pills of 2,4-Dinitrophenol, known as DNP. Her parents, Doug and Carole, 57, were left stunned when they were told that their daughter could not be treated because the hospital was "overwhelmed" by patients. Mr Shipsey says he pleaded with a nurse to treat his daughter, warning them how serious the weight-loss pills - which she had bought from Ukraine - could be. She was taken to a resuscitation room, but was moved to make way for others, and only had a tracheotomy for respiratory arrest when it was too late and died. — Doug and Carole Shipsey with an image of their daughter (Picture: SWNS)

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.

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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