Leah Betts 1995

The parents cooperated with the media to produce powerful emotive anti ecstasy images of their unconscious daughter dying behind them as they were interviewed with.

Leah betts 1995. Two days after leah betts had collapsed at her own 18 th birthday party. It could be your child the guardian 16th november 1996 in november 1995 leah betts lay in a hospital bed in a coma after taking ecstasy at her 18th birthday party. Ecstasy pill puts party girl in coma. Paul and janet betts daughter leah died after taking drugs now their son.

An 18 year old student is on a life support machine after taking an ecstasy tablet at her 18th birthday party. On 11 november 1995 leah betts s 18th birthday party turned into true a nightmare. Report from the times nov 22 1995 leah betts died of drinking water to counter drug s effect by jeremy laurance health correspondent leah betts the teenager who collapsed after taking an ecstasy tablet died as a result of drinking too much water which made her brain swell. Ms betts mother janet found her slumped in the.

13 november search on this day by date front page. Tony tucker pat tate and craig rolfe had. At a house party with a few friends at her house in latchingdon essex the schoolgirl and her friends decided to try ecstasy leah took a single pill at approximately 20 30. Leah betts from latchingdon in essex collapsed four hours after swallowing the pill which police believe may have been contaminated.

On this day in 1995 the face of a young girl in a hospital bed was splashed unforgettably across newspapers and tv screens. On 11 november she took an ecstasy mdma tablet and then drank approximately 7 litres 12 imp pt. After leah s death in 1995 her parents launched a campaign to promote drug awareness among teenagers. Shortly after midnight leah was found vomiting and in extreme pain in the bathroom and was hurried in an unconscious state to.

These included the fear of a deviant. Leah sarah betts 1 november 1977 16 november 1995 was a schoolgirl from latchingdon in essex england she is notable for the extensive media coverage that followed her death shortly after her 18th birthday. Doctors who treated her at broomfield hospital chelmsford essex where she was taken after lapsing into a coma at. The leah betts story.

Leah betts when leah died in 1995 i was 10 just old enough to read the headlines and to listen to the adults in my life who were keen to tell me that drugs and drug users were evil. In november 1995 the british media went to town over the death of leah a girl whose stepfather was once in the drug squad and whose stepmother goes round schools warning children about the dangers of drugs. 1 8 us gal of water in a 90 minute period.