White Mother Confronts and Shames Turkish Dealer Who Sold Pills Which Killed Her Daughter

Daily Mail
September 15, 2015

The mother of a student who died after accidentally overdosing on diet pills has told of the moment she confronted a dealer of the drugs.

Fiona Parry, whose 21-year-old daughter Eloise died in agony in April, posed as a gym owner wanting to place a bulk order of the diet drug DNP in a meeting with a Turkish peddler on Skype.

DNP, or dinitrophenol, which has been linked to the deaths of six Britons, is not a banned substance, but it is illegal to sell it for human consumption.

The dealer, Orhan Topcuer, who is based in Istanbul and sells the pills online, initially dismissed Mrs Parry’s concerns about the drug’s safety.

But when she revealed her true identity, he apologised and said he would stop selling the pills.

Mrs Parry, 51, said yesterday: ‘This man, like all the other traders, was fully aware that what he was doing was illegal.

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