Mum warns parents after watching her son die as night out turned to tragedy
27.06.2024 - 17:59
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A mum is sharing the tragic story of her son’s death as a cautionary tale to those attending Glastonbury and other festivals or parties this summer. Fiona Spargo-Mabbs's son, 16-year-old Dan, died in 2014 after taking a super-strength dose of MDMA at a rave which resulted in his temperature soaring past 42 degrees Celsius and saw his organs shut down one by one.
He passed away in a hospital bed with his parents, Fiona and Tim Spargo-Mabbs, as well as his older brother Jacob by his side. Dan had persuaded his mum to let him to go a party with friends but instead went to an illegal rave, the first time he had attended such an event, and took MDMA with four of his friends, who were fine in the aftermath, without knowing his bag contained a lethal amount.
He disappeared from his friends’ sight during the evening and they eventually found him propped up outside with paramedics before he was taken to A&E. By this time the amount of MDMA in his blood was 12 times stronger than had caused fatalities in the past, as his mum told The Sun.
He underwent procedures to relieve the swelling on his legs, or else they would have to be amputated, and machines at King’s College Hospital Liver Unit worked for his heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, and circulatory system. Despite the best efforts of staff, Dan died days later and while Fiona assured they weren’t naive to drug use among teenagers and admitted he was the more “curious” brother but “managed risk quite well”. His parents later learned that it was the “third time he had taken anything” and he had been “reluctant to go to this rave”.
In the decade since the tragedy, Fiona and Tim set up the DSM Foundation in his name to educate parents, teachers and children about drugs and alcohol.
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