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Student died after accidential 'toxic diet pill' overdose

A student died after accidentally taking an overdose of highly toxic diet pill drugs, a coroner has ruled.

Eloise Parry, 21, died on April 12 after taking eight pills containing the highly toxic drug Dinitrophenol, known as DNP.

Ms Parry - who suffered from bulimia - sent a message to her college lecturer on the morning of her death, which said "I think I am going to die", an inquest was told.

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Eloise sent lecturer 'I think I am going to die' message

A woman who died after taking highly toxic DNP 'diet pills', sent a message to her college lecturer on the morning of her death, which said "I think I am going to die".

ITV News correspondent Ben Chapman is at the inquest into 21-year-old Eloise Parry's death:

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