Youth dies after rave collapse

SKEGNESS - A teenager who died just five hours after hem collapsed at a rave may have been the victim of the ecstasy drug, police…

SKEGNESS - A teenager who died just five hours after hem collapsed at a rave may have been the victim of the ecstasy drug, police said last night.

John Mark Wainwright (17) died in hospital after lapsing into a "semi conscious state" at a rave near Skegness, Lincolnshire, as police investigated the death of a man in his early 20s who lost consciousness at an all night rave in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, and was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.

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