Ex-student wins £145,000 after school failed to report her drug use to parents

A woman who showed psychotic symptoms after smoking a steam Mephedron at boarding school gained £ 145,000 damage in the Supreme Court.

In September 2019, Irunees Pedrayes Varela drank the drug nicknamed “Magic ın of the students when he was at Buckswood School.

In his evidence for the court, he said that another student gave him mephedrone and noticed something strange in his head after he received it.

The Supreme Court judge Geraint WebB KC said in a decision on Friday that he was taken to the hospital after showing “paranoid and manic symptoms” to his school nurse the next day.

Pedrayes, who was 14 years old at the time, claimed that the school had violated the task of care against him, because the staff did not inform his parents living in Spain about drug use.

Mr. Webb accepted the school by saying that “fell below the necessary maintenance standard” and “negligent”.

As a result, the school has to pay £ 145,000.

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In my decision, Mr. Webb said: “It is clear that the symptoms mentioned by the school nurse have some personal injury to the plaintiff’s parents as soon as possible under the first aid policy of the school.”

Ms. Pedrays said that she was struggling to comply with the school rules and that her behavior was “challenging and destructive”.

Weekend, Mephedrone smoked; The judge said he was not allowed to leave school fields because of his wrong behavior.

After he was taken to hospital, webb continued to take drugs after smoking and then withdrew from school by his family after being threatened to deport.

In his evidence, Ms. Pedrayes said that an old male student gave him “magic ve and drank during the weekend of 27 September 2019.

He also said that he started to take drugs after he came to school and that he had lived in a parallel reality ”after he drank Mephedrone.

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The school rejected that he had violated the task of care and as evidence, Principal Kevin Samson said that the “magic” was a term used for Mephedron, or that he was a B class medication.

If he was aware of the court, Ms. Pedrays would report her parents.

He also said that Vaping is a common issue in school areas and that students will order online “magic”.

School staff will also patrol the school areas, establish deportation areas in a nearby town and students will examine the rooms to prevent drugs to prevent drugs, he added.

Mr. Webb said: “Certain security deficits of the plaintiff was well known to the school, and the school was given a high mission to look at the plaintiff, considering the information about the safety vulnerabilities involving the notification of such events to their parents without a right and unnecessary delay.

“Apart from anything else, the plaintiff’s parents had to be informed about the real facts in order to make a properly informed decision in line with the plaintiff’s interests to reduce the risks of any drug use.”