IT was 5.30am when police knocked on the door of Fiona and Tim Spargo-Mabbs to explain their son Dan was fighting for his life in intensive care. The 16-year-old's temperature had soared past 42C as his body struggled to cope with the super-strength dose of MDMA he had taken hours earlier at a rave, resulting in his organs slowly shutting down one by one.
Days later, as his parents and brother Jacob, now 29, kept vigil over his hospital bed, Dan tragically passed away. Fiona Spargo-Mabbs OBE tells The Sun today: “I didn’t feel we were naive to drugs being there, or naive to the possibility that Dan might try something. "But you can think about these things and never actually think it is going to be your child.
"But also I didn’t realise quite how much stuff was out there and this was ten years ago. “The amount of MDMA in Dan’s blood was so strong, 12 times stronger than had caused fatalities in the past. Some people with a really high level of tolerance may have coped with that, especially if they spread it out, but it was just way, way too strong.
" In the decade since their son's cruel death in January 2014, Fiona and Tim have set up the DSM Foundation in his name and worked tirelessly to educate parents, teachers and kids about drugs and alcohol. Today, as thousands of youngsters descend on Glastonbury Festival, she is issuing a fresh warning to parents after a report found super-strength ecstasy pills containing potentially life-threatening amounts of MDMA are on.
