Shakira Pellow: Teen dealer admits supplying drugs

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Image caption, Shakira Pellow died the day after collapsing in Pengegon Park, Cornwall

A teenager has admitted supplying the drugs that killed a 15-year-old girl.

Shakira Pellow took pills with her friends at a park in Camborne, Cornwall on July 6 last year and died in hospital the next day.

Joshua Fletcher-Ward pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of a Class A drug, MDMA, to Shakira Pellow and a Class A drug to another male.

The 18-year-old, of Telegraph Hill, in St Day, appeared at Truro Crown Court on Friday.

After suffering from multiple cardiac arrests and organ failure, Shakira Pellow passed away in hospital.

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Image caption, Shakira Pellow's family issued this picture of her hours before she died in hospital as a warning against drugs misuse

Fletcher Ward's co-accused, Oakley Willoughby previously pleaded not guilty to possession with intent to supply a Class A drug regarding the incident.

The fellow 18-year-old will stand trial on 10 February.

Fletcher-Ward will be sentenced at the conclusion of Mr Willoughby's trial on 13 February and has been bailed until then.

After the incident, three other 15-year-olds were also taken to hospital and later recovered.