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BRITAIN’S most successful bodybuilder is dealing deadly anabolic steroids from his gym.
By Nick Owens
Sunday Mirror
12 November 2006
Muscle man Billy Jones – a former Mr Universe [MuscleMemory.com] who has dined at Buckingham Palace – offers illegal injections and peddles pills from his office.
A Sunday Mirror investigator was offered the “miracle juice” after just three workouts in his famous Gym 21 – dubbed the Home of Champions.
He boasted: “If you follow my routine, lad, you won’t recognise yourself by Christmas – I can build you up that fast.”
When Jones was crowned Mr Universe he put his success down to eating healthy food and pumping iron. But his secret sideline shatters this image.
Jones, 48, offers to personally jab his customers in the arm and chest.
Introducing our reporter to his special workout routine at his Liverpool gym, Jones explained: “You come and see me and I give you your tablets.
“And then you see me at the beginning of the week and at the end of the week for your injections like the rest of the lads. I will do them for you if you don’t like injecting yourself.
“Come and see me on a Monday and I inject you with your Masteron. It is ‘bang, bang’ in the shoulder. Then at the end of the week we’ll do your chest, which will be Deca, a longer-lasting anabolic.
“It will cost you £20 a week and £20 for your box of pills, which will last you for a couple of months.”
Declining the offer of injections into his shoulders, our reporter was sold a box of Tabulettae Methandienoni – a strong anabolic steroid imported from Russia.
Deca Durabolin and Masteron are two of the fastest-acting anabolic steroids. [Pardon? - red.] But they have deadly side-effects, including increasing the risk of developing cancer and the chances of getting liver disease later in life.
Steroids can also cause heart palpitations and lead to violent mood swings – knownas “roidrage”. Jones failed to mention any of these side-effects.
A source at the gym said: “It is terrible what goes on. Billy Jones has this image of a national hero in bodybuilding. But really he is just a cheat helping people to get big with drugs.
“If you don’t take the drugs here then you are made to feel an outcast.”
A recent report by the Drugscope charity found a huge rise in anabolic steroid use among young men.
Catherine Jurkin, of the Drug Surveillance Group, said: “Anabolic steroids have particularly harmful side-effects which makes it dangerous for them to be prescribed by anyone other than a doctor.
“Methandienoni is particularly dangerous because it’s often mixed with other substances.”
It is not illegal to use or possess the steroids, but under the Misuse of Drugs Act it is against the law to sell them. Those caught and convicted can face jail or a fine.
But Jones appears to be living the high life. He drives a Porsche and lives in a £500,000 house on the Wirral. The former deep-sea diver was crowned Mr Universe in 1996.
During a 20-year career as a bodybuilder he has built a reputation as a fundraiser. It was this which saw him invited to the Queen’s summer garden party at Buckingham Palace in 2002.
Jones has run Gym 21, in Liverpool’s Kensington district, since the start of the 1990s – but many regard it as a no-go zone and it has been the scene of a number of gangland shootings.
By Nick Owens
Sunday Mirror
12 November 2006
Muscle man Billy Jones – a former Mr Universe [MuscleMemory.com] who has dined at Buckingham Palace – offers illegal injections and peddles pills from his office.
A Sunday Mirror investigator was offered the “miracle juice” after just three workouts in his famous Gym 21 – dubbed the Home of Champions.
He boasted: “If you follow my routine, lad, you won’t recognise yourself by Christmas – I can build you up that fast.”
When Jones was crowned Mr Universe he put his success down to eating healthy food and pumping iron. But his secret sideline shatters this image.
Jones, 48, offers to personally jab his customers in the arm and chest.
Introducing our reporter to his special workout routine at his Liverpool gym, Jones explained: “You come and see me and I give you your tablets.
“And then you see me at the beginning of the week and at the end of the week for your injections like the rest of the lads. I will do them for you if you don’t like injecting yourself.
“Come and see me on a Monday and I inject you with your Masteron. It is ‘bang, bang’ in the shoulder. Then at the end of the week we’ll do your chest, which will be Deca, a longer-lasting anabolic.
“It will cost you £20 a week and £20 for your box of pills, which will last you for a couple of months.”
Declining the offer of injections into his shoulders, our reporter was sold a box of Tabulettae Methandienoni – a strong anabolic steroid imported from Russia.
Deca Durabolin and Masteron are two of the fastest-acting anabolic steroids. [Pardon? - red.] But they have deadly side-effects, including increasing the risk of developing cancer and the chances of getting liver disease later in life.
Steroids can also cause heart palpitations and lead to violent mood swings – knownas “roidrage”. Jones failed to mention any of these side-effects.
A source at the gym said: “It is terrible what goes on. Billy Jones has this image of a national hero in bodybuilding. But really he is just a cheat helping people to get big with drugs.
“If you don’t take the drugs here then you are made to feel an outcast.”
A recent report by the Drugscope charity found a huge rise in anabolic steroid use among young men.
Catherine Jurkin, of the Drug Surveillance Group, said: “Anabolic steroids have particularly harmful side-effects which makes it dangerous for them to be prescribed by anyone other than a doctor.
“Methandienoni is particularly dangerous because it’s often mixed with other substances.”
It is not illegal to use or possess the steroids, but under the Misuse of Drugs Act it is against the law to sell them. Those caught and convicted can face jail or a fine.
But Jones appears to be living the high life. He drives a Porsche and lives in a £500,000 house on the Wirral. The former deep-sea diver was crowned Mr Universe in 1996.
During a 20-year career as a bodybuilder he has built a reputation as a fundraiser. It was this which saw him invited to the Queen’s summer garden party at Buckingham Palace in 2002.
Jones has run Gym 21, in Liverpool’s Kensington district, since the start of the 1990s – but many regard it as a no-go zone and it has been the scene of a number of gangland shootings.
