Woman to plead guilty over import and sale of diet drugs

A mother of two accused of supplying potentially dangerous slimming tablets by mail order and over the internet is to plead guilty, a court has heard.

Lydia McCarthy, from Alexandra Place, East Road, East Wall, Dublin 3, is facing 35 counts of breaking medicinal products regulations.

It is alleged she imported and advertised online slimming products which are subject to prescription control and contained a controversial drug called sibutramine, which has been withdrawn from markets across the world due to health risk fears.