Tributes have poured in for a "beautiful" young woman who was just weeks away from starting her dream job as a flight attendant.
Lucy George, 25, died of multiple organ failure at Warrington Hospital on August 30, four days after collapsing at Creamfields festival. Speaking previously, her heartbroken mum Helen said: "As a family now we are absolutely devastated because she's not here. 25 is no age to lose her life."
The 25-year-old was just three weeks away from starting her "dream job" as a flight attendant with Virgin Atlantic when she began acting strangely at the Cheshire festival. Toxicology reports found a mixture of drugs in Lucy's system, including fatal levels of MDMA (ecstasy).
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Since the ECHO reported on the tragic death after her inquest this week, tributes have come pouring in for the "beautiful young lady". Ruth Strong said: "Rest in peace god bless you, my thoughts and prayers are with your family at this sad time, I know how they feel been through it myself."
Andy Loftus wrote: "Heart-breaking on every level, RIP. God Bless this beautiful young Lady and each and everyone of her devastated family and friends, you’re all truly in my thoughts and prayers."
Michelle Cichockyj said: "Heart-breaking. Heart goes out to her family rip Lucy go fly with the angels", as Irene Russell added: "Tragic to say the least, condolences to all her family. RIP Lucy."
An inquest held in Warrington on Wednesday heard how her friends tried desperately for around a hour to get help for the 25-year-old as she fell unconscious - but medics were "too busy" to assist them.
The on-site hospital's ambulance control team were finally alerted to Lucy's condition at around 9.35pm. Lucy was struggling to breathe, and went into cardiac arrest as doctors prepared a ventilation tube before she was resuscitated, and rushed to Warrington Hospital's ICU.
Her inquest was told she was not a drug addict, but had occasionally taken drugs, including at last year's Creamfields Festival, and had talked about buying them ahead of the event. After arriving on Thursday, she took half an MDMA pill and spent the night drinking vodka and "doing balloons" (inhaling nitrous oxide) with her friends. She also bought some 2C-B pills.
Handing down a conclusion of death by misadventure, coroner Jacqueline Devonish said: "(Lucy) wasn't a drug addict. She only took drugs because she happened to be at the festival and that's what young people do when they go to festivals. In this case Lucy had taken drugs, she did that to herself, no one forced her to do it. It wasn't with the intention of harming herself. She didn't expect this outcome.
"She was 25, she was no age, and it's really sad to think that someone as bright and bubbly and lively and energetic and hard-working as Lucy has lost her life."
ECHO reader Jo Jo said: "So sad to be reading this. I know how easy it was to get drugs in the 90’s so I’m sure it’s just as easy now. People take drugs, we all wish they wouldn’t but it’ll always be the same. This poor girl has paid the worst price and now her whole family are devastated."
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