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pleased he was making a new start. Mrs Niamh Astles bravely faced


A LANGHO mother whose son died of a drugs overdose told the dealer who supplied him with the lethal pills that she was


the man and thanked him for'attend- mg the inquest into the death of her lb-year; old son, Gareth Noone. l He died in bed at his Langho home


|fnend as “outgoing, funny and a good mate — had taken about 15 Temaze­ pam capsules before taking the heroin substitute, methadone.


ast October. Student Gareth — described by a


friends heard Coroner Andre Hebello, in recording a verdict of accidental death, say that drugs now affect the whole of society.,


Around 20 family members and


Gareth had started smoking cannabis a t the end of 1994, before experi­ menting with harder drugs such as amphetamines, LSD, ecstasy and heroin.


Earlier,’, they had been told that


prescribed for insomnia or to relieve anxiety, around a month before his death. .


He first used Temazepam, usually


had become friendly with Sebastian Burkhadt, who received a two-year suspended sentence for supplying drugs following the death.


The inquest was told that Gareth


was making a new start as a graphic designer with his father’s business.


report, Mrs Astles, a solicitor with Lancashire Police, thanked everyone, in p a r t icu la r Mr Burkhadt, for attending the inquest. She said she was pleased to see he


After hearing the pathologist’s


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Astles said: “Gareth and his friends appear to have become insidiously involved in actions, the potential con­ sequences of which they were ignorant.


In a prepared sta tement, Mrs


report that examination of Gareth revealed methadone at a concentra­ tion which he considered to be just sufficent to cause death in a naive user. Gareth died from ignorance. “Our family,-while devastated by


“The pathologist sta ted in his


other young people to suffer the same' fate.” Mr Burkhadt (23), of Ashton, Pres­


Gareth’s death, do not want him to have died in vain. We do not want


ton, said he now regretted not warn­ ing Gareth about the dangers of drugs.


acted a lot more sensibly; I just thought Gareth and his friends were a lot older than they were.” • Mr Burkhadt explained that he became friendly with Gareth through his girlfriend, Yolande Pendlebury, the sister of one of the dead boy’s friends. The inquest heard Mr Burkhadt,


He said: “I know I should have


who had’ been living in Langho with his grandmother at the time, say he got the Temazepam capsules from Miss Pendlebury who “got them free from her dad’s chemist”. On the night before his death,


Gareth and his friends had been at Miss Pendlebury’s Whalley Hoad fiat which she shared with her brother, Hugo. The friends used the flat to smoke cannabis. Friend Matthew Hart (18), of


Hacking Close, Langho, said he believed Gareth took about 15 Tema­


drugs at the age of 12 or. 13 and had tried heroin on one occasion with Gareth. The friends agreed on the night to get Gareth off drugs after becoming*


zepam capsules, which had been sold to him by Mr Burkhadt. He explained he s ta rted using


worried about the amount .he was taking. • Mr H a r t said: “We could see


escape in village corn mill fire


TWO Whalley families had a lucky ' escape when a fire completely gutted an ancient Corn mill and came within yards of destroying their homes on Sunday


morningi.. They fled in their night elothes. from their homes


his wife, Sue, were woken in their flat by their neigh­ bour, who raised the alarm after hearing burning tim­ ber.' They live across from the mill. The couple picked up


their eight-month-old son Callum and hud no choice


but .to run out of the house into the path of falling slates and timber from an overhead hoist. Musician Mr Sykora


he a t was ferocious and flames must have been 30 or 40 feet high. Slates were coming off the roof and I could see flames creeping towards our flat. We were lucky it was not destroyed.” Children were caught


“When we gob out the ;


from around East . Lanca­ shire two hours to bring the blaze under control. Mr Duncan Sykora and


at Abbey Mews after the disused Abbey corn mill went up in flames. The listed building, dating from 1837, will now have to be partly demolished I t took 30 fire-fighters


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gery Aireysaid: “Robert heard, what he thought was heavy rain and when he realised the mill was on fire he raised the alarm. Debris was falling as we • came out of the front door. There were flames shoot­ ing up the old hoist and r ig h t through the mill * roof.” Her other son, Howard


Airey (22) rang the fire b r ig ad e and woke his neighbours after realising the four-storey stone and t im b e r b u i ld in g was alight. His mother, Mrs Mar­


said: “The front door is the only way out, so we would have had to jump from a back window if that way had been blocked!


(21), helped her carry their terrier dog, Tanner, from the house, which is connected to the mill. Both houses suffered


raised at 5-20 a.m. two fire appliances from Great Harwood a r r iv ed and these were then assisted by two appliances from Accrington and two from Clitheroe. Station officer Mr Jack


damage when the heat c ra ck ed .windows and s l a t e s . No one was injured. ., A f te r the-a la rm was


F I It E h e ro It o h e r. I Airey, who raised, the alarm


Anderson, of Great Har­ wood, said: “The floors '


and roof have been com­ pletely destroyed in the lire and there is no sup­ port for the 'f ro n t wall. The fire must have been; going for some time before we got to the scene. It is a fire of doubtful origin.” Fire-fighters spent the


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Clitheroe Police, said the police were waiting for the results of the fire investi­ gation report before any action was taken. The grade-two listed


building will now be partly demolished to the second floor level to make it safe. I t ceased operation as a mill in 19G2. O w n e r Mr D e r e k


rest of Sunday dampening down the building. A fire investigation team and Ribble Valley Borough Council building• inspec­ tors attended the scene. Insp. Les Martin, of


Mr Sykora said: “Some kids were messing about, starting a fire, but I put it out. They, had also been play in g with a can of. petrol.” ", Hero neighbour Robert


starting a fire in the build­ ing on Saturday evening.


Gareth was changing because he was on drugs, so we said we should try to sort him out, but he died. During the two weeks before he died, Gareth’s drug-taking had increased. He was not using drugs just at weekends, but


he was daily taking drugs, including heroin and Temazepam.”


death, Mr Burkhadt was said to have shown no remorse and told several of the friends not to mention he had sold Gareth drugs. Mr Hart said: “He said ‘Don’t be


taken Mr Burkhadt’s bottle of meth­ adone from the flat to help him sleep. After hearing the hews of Gareth’s


The inquest heard that Gareth had


saying I have been selling Temaze­ pam or I’ve been selling him heroin’, lie then said they would probably find pills in him and he said we will have to say Gareth got them from his dad.”


Yolande Pendlebury said she believed Gareth was "in awe” of Mr Burkhadt


In a statement to the inquest, •


and thought it was “cool” to use drugs.


• Mr Burkhadt. The lifelong friend said: “He said Sebastian was trying to get him to do things and get him more customers. His exact words were that Seb was evil and he wanted to stop seeing him. “He said heroin was too good to be true and he was not going to do it


not mention if he had used drugs, said Gareth had expressed concern about


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quite satisfied that Gareth was not a drug addict in the normal sense of the word. I am satisfied he was a young man experimenting with substances which, though illicit, were quite rea- dilv available in his social circle. “It was thought that drugs only


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affected poor families in major cities. Clearly that is not the case. There is very little any family can do to stop the effect of drugs. I t has to be a society effort. “ Young people have always


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Jones (Clitheroe) advised his colleagues that they should be prepared to try it and, if it did not produce the goods, say no thank you. Coun. Bert Jones said


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