A bright teenage girl died after taking an ecstasy pill for the first time at a sleepover with pals, an inquest heard. A-Level student Lila-Grace Smith, 17, took the class A drug as she stayed a friend's house last summer.
She was rushed to hospital after her friends raised the alarm, but tragically she couldn't be saved. Bradford Coroner's Court heard the amount of ecstasy in her system was 'well within' the range of levels that have been associated with deaths from taking the drug.
Her heartbroken mother, Emma Hargreaves, told the inquest that she'd warned her daughters of taking drugs because she knew someone who overdosed from ecstasy. In a statement read to the court, Emma said Lila had spoken to her about her friends taking drugs but she herself had never taken any.
