Boy's suspected ecstasy death 'could happen to anyone'

Daniel Spargo-Mabbs Credit: Facebook

The father of a 16-year-old schooldboy who died after apparently taking ecstasy at a rave has warned "it could happen to anyone".

Daniel Spargo-Mabbs was taken to hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning after going to the party at an industrial site in Hayes in west London. He died yesterday.

Speaking at the family home in Croydon, his father Tim described him as "a lovely mercurial kid":

The teenager was in the first year of studying for his A-levels. Richard Parrish, Headteacher at Archbishop Tenison's Church of England High School said he was "just beginning to find his niche" and was interested in "a whole range" of things.

  • Police were called at about 4am on Saturday by paramedics who were treating the unconscious teenager at the rave at Pump Lane, Silverdale Road

  • He was first taken to a hospital in west London and then moved to another in central London, but died on Monday

  • Two men, aged 18 and 19 and from Croydon, south London, were arrested for supplying controlled drugs

Richard Parrish wrote a letter to parents to express the school's grief. It said: