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Bluelight Crew
A university lecturer who admitted possessing class-A drugs after a schoolgirl overdosed at his house has been spared jail.
Isobel Jones-Reilly, 15, died in April after taking ecstasy at an unsupervised party at Brian Dodgeon's west London home.
Dodgeon, 61, had a stash of party drugs – ecstasy, LSD, ketamine and a psychedelic drug known as Foxy Methoxy – hidden in a wardrobe in his bedroom, but said he never thought the teenagers would find it. He was given an eight-month sentence, suspended for two years, at Isleworth crown court.
About a week after the incident, Dodgeon tried to kill himself by leaping from a bridge over the North Circular road in Walthamstow, east London. He required brain surgery after fracturing his skull and broke numerous bones, including a femur, an elbow and a heel.
Passing sentence, Judge Andrew McDowall told Dodgeon: "The worst punishment you can have is one that will last for the rest of your conscious life – the knowledge that because of the possession of these drugs and your failure to keep them secure from teenage experimentation has resulted in a death. You know that and it is obviously a burden on you.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/02/brian-dodgeon-sentenced-drug-death
Isobel Jones-Reilly, 15, died in April after taking ecstasy at an unsupervised party at Brian Dodgeon's west London home.
Dodgeon, 61, had a stash of party drugs – ecstasy, LSD, ketamine and a psychedelic drug known as Foxy Methoxy – hidden in a wardrobe in his bedroom, but said he never thought the teenagers would find it. He was given an eight-month sentence, suspended for two years, at Isleworth crown court.
About a week after the incident, Dodgeon tried to kill himself by leaping from a bridge over the North Circular road in Walthamstow, east London. He required brain surgery after fracturing his skull and broke numerous bones, including a femur, an elbow and a heel.
Passing sentence, Judge Andrew McDowall told Dodgeon: "The worst punishment you can have is one that will last for the rest of your conscious life – the knowledge that because of the possession of these drugs and your failure to keep them secure from teenage experimentation has resulted in a death. You know that and it is obviously a burden on you.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/02/brian-dodgeon-sentenced-drug-death
