Schoolgirl of 13 died after taking ecstasy at home
A ‘HuGE-HEARTED’ 13-year- old girl died after taking ecstasy at home, it emerged yesterday.
Police originally said Eboney Cheshire’s death was ‘unexplained’, but confirmed yesterday that toxic levels of MDMA – the chemical name for ecstasy – had been found in her system.
Eboney, from Rainhill, near St Helens, Merseyside, was taken to hospital by paramedics at around 11.40pm on December 2 last year. She died there less than two hours later.
Following the tragedy, Eboney’s mother Kerry Williams said she was ‘heartbroken’. In a tribute read on her behalf to the 500 mourners at Eboney’s funeral, Miss Williams described her daughter as her ‘precious princess and best friend’.
‘Since you left us in this physical world you took a massive piece of my heart with you,’ she said.
‘I find it hard each day to talk about you in the past tense as I still find it hard to accept you are not by my side. Life will never be the same. You were one of a kind and my guess is that’s why the angels wanted you so much.’
Miss Williams said she had heard from parents ‘on a few occasions’ that Eboney, who was a pupil at Rainshill High School, had helped other children who were being bullied, and added: ‘You had a huge heart and cared so much about other people.’
She continued: ‘Eboney, I hope you hear me every day telling you how much I love and miss you. I love you baby girl and you will be in our hearts for ever and ever.’
Eboney’s brother, Leon Cheshire, also posted a tribute to her on social media on Christmas Day. He said he wished there was ‘some way, shape or form’ he could have spent Christmas with his sister and that her death was ‘a bad dream I that could wake up from’. He added: ‘If I could go back in time I would’, and called 2018 his ‘worst year, hands down’.
In the days following Eboney’s death, friends released balloons in tribute. No one has yet been arrested in connection with Eboney’s death but investigations are ongoing.
Ten-year-old Jade Slack, who died in July 2002, remains Britain’s youngest victim of the drug. She died after swallowing five ecstasy tablets she found in a cigarette packet under a sofa cushion at a friend’s house in Galgate, a farming village south of Lancaster.
‘I love and miss you, baby girl’