Article: This woman sells more slimming pills in just one day than the rest of Glasgow's GPs do in 3 months; She lives in a pounds 350,000 home and her policeman husband drives a Ferrari.(News)

THE wife of a policeman is being investigated over a money-making trade in a potentially dangerous slimming pill.

Dr Karen Bett operates 14 private clinics in Scotland's central belt, charging her customers pounds 10 a time for tablets which cost her just 70p.

Working out of social clubs and community centres, Dr Bett, 36, prescribes more of the pills in one day than all of Glasgow's GPs do in three months.

Scores of women are dependent on her for their weekly supply of the slimming pill, Phentermine.

Mother-of-three Dr Bett enjoys all ...

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