Boyfriend was too high on drugs to save Lady Beth, 18
THE boyfriend of an aristocrat’s daughter who died after a two-day drug and alcohol binge has admitted he was too high on drugs himself to save her.
Jenan Karagoli, 21, said he found 18-year-old Lady Beth Douglas, the youngest daughter of the Marquess of Queensberry, unconscious at a house party with needle marks in her arm.
He had been dating the talented young violinist for 10 months, and was confronted by her grieving father, David Douglas, the 88-year-old 12th marquess, days after her funeral.
Mr Karagoli told the Mail on Sunday: “He told me that I could have looked after her better. I fully believe I could have done more, but unfortunately at the time I was too gone.”
Lady Beth, known as Ling Ling, had a history of drug abuse and self-harm and was being treated for mental health problems.
An inquest last week heard that she died after a house party at a £2.5million flat in west London in March.
Mr Karagoli said they had spent at least two days drinking and taking drugs in hotels. He left the party to buy wine and said that when he returned, Lady Beth was apparently asleep on a sofa. He said he fell asleep alongside her but when he awoke, she was unresponsive and he called an ambulance.
“The man in the flat said she had taken heroin,” he said. “I just picked up her arms and saw a little peck of dots.”
The inquest recorded the cause of death as a cardiac respiratory failure and cocaine and heroin poisoning.
Lady Beth’s family has endured what has been labelled the “Queensberry curse”. Lord Queensberry’s third son, Lord Milo Douglas, died in 2009 aged 34, after jumping from a block of flats.