Man dies after taking ecstasy

Penzance - A 22-year-old man died in a Cornish hospital yesterday after collapsing in a nightclub when he took ecstasy.

Penzance - A 22-year-old man died in a Cornish hospital yesterday after collapsing in a nightclub when he took ecstasy.

Mr David Breakspear was taken to hospital after he was found collapsed in lavatories at Exodus nightclub in Penzance in the early hours of Saturday. He was transferred from West Cornwall Hospital to the intensive care unit at Treliske Hospital in Truro.

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