17 year old Jack Elliot collapsed and passed away at a party after taking ecstasy and died of the biggest overdose of the drug yet officially recorded.

The A-Level student stopped breathing at his schoolfriend’s £500,000 house near Southampton and was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.

The autopsy has revealed the teenagers ecstasy level was 10,420 milligrammes per litre of blood with friends estimating he ingested at least eleven pills on the night. Emmanuel Abu, a chemical pathologist stated the previous highest level recorded was 7,720 milligrammes per litre of blood, when a patient had allegedly taken 42 tablets.

Dr Adman al-Badri, consultant pathologist at the Royal Hampshire Hospital in Winchester said “Tests revealed that Jack died of multiple organ failure.” He added: “It is impossible to say how many tablets Jack had taken, but at the very least he had taken 11.”

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source: Independent