R v Bernard Rebelo: Sentencing Remarks of the Hon. Mrs Justice Whipple DBE

The trial judge's published sentencing remarks following Bernard Rebelo's retrial conviction for the gross negligence manslaughter of Eloise Parry. Sets out, on the jury's findings, how Rebelo's internet business (DrMusclePharmaceuticals.com, begun 2013) imported DNP from China, capsuled it at home, sold it worldwide by mail order under disguised names, ignored 2003 and 2012 Food Standards Agency warnings, and continued trading after Parry's death and an April 2015 Interpol Orange Warning until a February 2016 premises search. Records (para. 6) that of those who presented at hospital between 2007 and 2019 with a history of having taken DNP, 18% died — the remarks attribute this figure to no named data source and state no geographic scope. The disposal on 11 March 2020 (para. 20) is 'a total period of 7 years' imprisonment' for the manslaughter; the 18 months to serve concurrently for food-safety offences belongs to the ORIGINAL first-trial sentence (para. 12), which capped what could be imposed on retrial, and is not part of the 2020 disposal.