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DID INTERNET DRUG KILL MY LITTLE GIRL? A PROMISING medical student has been found dead with a container of an unclassified drug next to her.
Hester Stewart, 21, was found at a house in Patcham on Sunday morning, with a container of a GBL close to her. The colourless, odourless drug, used on the party scene, is legal, freely available on the internet and not classified by the
by EMILY WALKER and JULIET CONWAY
Home Office. It mixes with the body’s stomach acid to create date rape drug GHB. Hester, who lived in the Queen’s Park area of Brighton, but grew up in Lewes, had been at an awards ceremony with her cheerleading squad, the Brighton and Sussex Waves, at the Thistle
Hotel, Brighton, on Saturday night, before going to a party in Patcham. It is not known whether Hester, a student of molecular medicine at Sussex University, took the drug deliberately. Hester’s mother, nutritionist Maryon Stewart, from Warren Road, Brighton, said: “She was a dream of a daughter. I am
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LETHAL DOSE: Medical student Hester Stewart, 21, was found dead on Sunday
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DID INTERNET DRUG KILL MY LITTLE GIRL? A PROMISING medical student has been found dead with a container of an unclassified drug next to her.
Hester Stewart, 21, was found at a house in Patcham on Sunday morning, with a container of a GBL close to her. The colourless, odourless drug, used on the party scene, is legal, freely available on the internet and not classified by the
by EMILY WALKER and JULIET CONWAY
Home Office. It mixes with the body’s stomach acid to create date rape drug GHB. Hester, who lived in the Queen’s Park area of Brighton, but grew up in Lewes, had been at an awards ceremony with her cheerleading squad, the Brighton and Sussex Waves, at the Thistle
Hotel, Brighton, on Saturday night, before going to a party in Patcham. It is not known whether Hester, a student of molecular medicine at Sussex University, took the drug deliberately. Hester’s mother, nutritionist Maryon Stewart, from Warren Road, Brighton, said: “She was a dream of a daughter. I am
TURN TO PAGE 5
LETHAL DOSE: Medical student Hester Stewart, 21, was found dead on Sunday
BRIGHTON AND HOVE CITY CABS 01273 205 205... SEE PAGE 3
