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Daily Record
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Tim Bugler

Gym boss jailed for selling deadly fat-burning pills in landmark Scottish case

A gym boss has been jailed for more than three years for flogging potentially deadly fat-burning pills.

Jamie George, 32, was selling 2,4-dinitrophenol capsules - commonly known as DNP - in "a significant manufacturing operation" from his garden shed in Denny.

The illegal substance is used by bodybuilders as a way of stripping fat and is thought to have killed 33 people in the UK - two of them Scots.

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