A TEENAGE boy died after an experiment with ecstasy went wrong, an inquest has been told.
Jonathan Kiely (17), of Avondale, Passage West, Co Cork, took 4½ pills over five hours. Within hours he was in hospital with severe brain damage. An inquest into Mr Kiely’s death on January 4th, 2007, took place yesterday at Cork City Coroner’s Court.
A group of friends bought 20 ecstasy pills from a dealer at the bus station at Parnell Place in Cork earlier that day. They went to the local cemetery at 5.30pm, where they each “double dropped” two pills.
An hour later they “double dropped” again; by 9.30pm witnesses described them as being “totally out of it”.
Some time after 9.30pm, they crushed half a pill and snorted it. Shortly afterwards Mr Kiely began to vomit, his eyes were rolling in his head and he started to mumble.
His mother was called, and when she arrived she had difficulty getting him into her car. She drove her son to Cork University Hospital, but scans revealed he had suffered massive brain swelling and damage.
Coroner Dr Myra Cullinane returned a verdict of death by misadventure.