:00:00. > :00:12.A BBC investigation's discovered lethal diet pills are being sold
:00:13. > :00:17.on the so-called "dark web" - despite a major crackdown.
:00:18. > :00:19.The tablets containing dinitrophenol or DNP have
:00:20. > :00:22.been linked to a number of deaths in the UK,
:00:23. > :00:29.including a man from Buckinghamshire four years `go.
:00:30. > :00:31.Zoe Curtis has this exclusive report.
:00:32. > :00:34.Sean Clithero was just 28 when he died after taking
:00:35. > :00:37.the highly toxic chemical DNP in a High Wycombe gym.
:00:38. > :00:40.He was hoping to lose weight and his mother Sharon Ayres wants
:00:41. > :00:52.I was in with him probably H think no more than ten minutes and when I
:00:53. > :00:56.first got in there he was trying to stand up because he said his back
:00:57. > :01:06.was hurting and he was just shouting that is back hurt and he wanted to
:01:07. > :01:10.stand up and he wanted me to help him, and I said you can't stand up.
:01:11. > :01:13.I noticed his stats were re`lly high and the doctor was telling le to
:01:14. > :01:16.keep calm and lie down, and the sweat that was
:01:17. > :01:21.legally used in fertilisers, dyes and even ammunition.
:01:22. > :01:25.But it's illegal if sold or marketed for human consumption.
:01:26. > :01:29.Four people were jailed in connection with Sean's c`se.
:01:30. > :01:31.The Food Standards Agency is clamping down on underground
:01:32. > :01:37.websites selling DNP 'as didt pills' and has closed 19 in the last year.
:01:38. > :01:40.If you are selling it online we can track you,
:01:41. > :01:44.we can trace you to your hole address, and we have done on
:01:45. > :01:46.two occasions this year, we've successfully intervened in those
:01:47. > :01:58.selling it online, thinking they were selling it in a w`y that
:01:59. > :02:01.could not be traced but acttally we traced them, and they are now
:02:02. > :02:04.active, ongoing investigations hoping to be result in prosdcution.
:02:05. > :02:06.New figures from the Medicines Health Regulatory Authority seen
:02:07. > :02:10.by the BBC show it seized ?1.4 million worth of unlicdnsed
:02:11. > :02:25.dietary medicines in the last year, up from 960,000 two years bdfore.
:02:26. > :02:28.The BBC purchased pills from the dark web and had them
:02:29. > :02:30.The results showed they contained 40% DNP.
:02:31. > :02:33.The campaign to clamp down on the sales is continuing
:02:34. > :02:37.But it's of little comfort to those who've already lost loved ones.
:02:38. > :02:54.I had Sean when I was 17, so not just losing a son, he was lhke a
:02:55. > :02:57.little brother to me - so it is very, very
:02:58. > :03:00.when you have that bond with someone and all
:03:01. > :03:04.A man from Chipping Norton's been sentenced to 18 years in prhson -
:03:05. > :03:07.for the attempted murder of his elderly mother.
:03:08. > :03:09.Steven Williams, who's 44, was convicted
:03:10. > :03:15.He'd stabbed 72 year old Daphne Williams in the neck
:03:16. > :03:18.in an unprovoked attack six months ago.
:03:19. > :03:21.Next tonight - Specials - or voluntary police officers -
:03:22. > :03:24.could soon make up around a third of the number of
:03:25. > :03:29.The force has started a recruitment drive for more but denies it's
:03:30. > :03:31.using volunteers to plug the gap, left by cuts.
:03:32. > :03:58.He's just up ahead of us so we'll do a compliance stop in a second.
:03:59. > :04:01.The reason I've stopped you is because you're speedhng
:04:02. > :04:04.Ian Evans has been doing this job for ten years,
:04:05. > :04:10.You could be sat round the corner and a call could come in, a distress
:04:11. > :04:12.call, or someone trying to commit suicide.
:04:13. > :04:15.It is very satisfying being able to come along and help a melber
:04:16. > :04:18.of the public and calm them down and let them know, reassure them.
:04:19. > :04:21.I enjoy that I just enjoy the satisfaction of being able
:04:22. > :04:25.Nationally, specials make up 16 of police constables.
:04:26. > :04:31.Wiltshire has around 1000 Pcs and 136 specials.
:04:32. > :04:35.They want to increase that number to 500.
:04:36. > :04:37.That would mean a third of its constables
:04:38. > :04:43.There's a danger that peopld will see it as using voluntders
:04:44. > :04:51.that the special constabulary have a very special place and that
:04:52. > :04:55.they're there to support the police not to replace
:04:56. > :05:05.Are you using specials to plug the gap because of cuts?
:05:06. > :05:09.No, no, I mean it's fair to say we have fewer officers now
:05:10. > :05:11.than we did a few years ago but we still have the core strength
:05:12. > :05:14.and we certailnly would not ever use or expect the specials to fhll
:05:15. > :05:18.Specials have the same responsibilities and the sale powers
:05:19. > :05:25.They free up the police, enabling them to take on other,
:05:26. > :05:30.Wiltshire Constabulary say people wanting to become a special
:05:31. > :05:33.will receive full, ongoing training and the chance to specialisd
:05:34. > :05:44.in an aspect of policing, such as cyber crime,
:05:45. > :05:49.A new memorial garden is being created in Oxford
:05:50. > :05:51.to commemorate the lives of soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan.
:05:52. > :05:54.456 daffodil bulbs have been planted -
:05:55. > :05:58.one for each of the servicelen and women who died in the conflict.
:05:59. > :06:00.Many of the bodies were brotght to the John Radcliffe Hospital
:06:01. > :06:02.in Oxford for a post mortem examination.
:06:03. > :06:04.A formal ceremony will be held when the daffodils
:06:05. > :06:12.I think it is very important because we always had about 200
:06:13. > :06:16.It was ex-servicemen, serving personnel and
:06:17. > :06:23.The same people used to come week after week.
:06:24. > :06:27.I think they would appreciate what's happening here today.
:06:28. > :06:30.A new magazine is officiallx on offer in Aylesbury.
:06:31. > :06:32.It's a collection of tales of life in Buckinghamshire
:06:33. > :06:37.The magazine - written by vdterans - is designed to help them find
:06:38. > :06:43.We're back in BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning.
:06:44. > :06:44.Sarah Farmer has your weather next.
:06:45. > :06:59.Hello. Good evening. We stick with the cloudy and mild they must we go
:07:00. > :07:06.through this evening and thhs weekend as well. A settled picture,
:07:07. > :07:12.courtesy of high pressure. Tonight, temperatures around 12, 13. A lot of
:07:13. > :07:16.cloud but where we do see some breaks, some patchy fog devdloping.
:07:17. > :07:20.That will be slow to clear. Very light winds on the cards. Most of
:07:21. > :07:27.seeing Cloud during the course of the day. Into the afternoon brighter
:07:28. > :07:30.skies developing. Taking a look ahead, it looks like we will stick
:07:31. > :07:32.with the settled conditions into Sunday. More brightness on the way
:07:33. > :07:36.for the afternoon. to come into the beginning of next
:07:37. > :07:37.week as well. Now the national