Toxic ‘E’ same as park gig kill pills

THE dodgy pills feared to have killed eight people in the North have been linked to drugs that claimed two young lives at the notorious Phoenix Park gigs.

Gardai in Dublin have told the PSNI they believe the poison “ecstasy” was also taken by tragic Shane Brophy and Lee Scanlon at the Swedish House Mafia concert last July.

The Irish Sun has learned that the new batch of tabs — vivid green in colour and stamped with a Rolex watch-style crown — contain the same deadly cocktail of ingredients.

Co Laois lad Brophy, 21, died in a pal’s house five hours after attending last year’s dance music gig, having downed a “significant” amount of cocaine and ecstasy.

And 20-year-old Scanlon, from Clonsilla, Dublin, had taken at least three ecstasy tablets before he collapsed in a Portaloo at the controversial open-air rave.

Commenting on a Phoenix Park connection to the current drugs scare, a garda source told us: “We believe they are the same type of pills, but with different names.

“They contain the same dodgy ingredients. We have passed concerns on to the PSNI.”

Fears of toxic “E” in circulation emerged after a Co Antrim clubber suddenly fell ill last weekend and hours later lost her fight for life.

Cops in the North are now awaiting toxicology reports on the two bodies, as well as those of six other people who have died unexpectedly in recent weeks.

All were aged in their 20s and 30s and from the greater Belfast area.

While PSNI officers will not confirm the deaths are drug-related, yesterday they warned anyone who takes the green pills that they face “potentially life-threatening consequences”.

And Northern Ireland’s Public Health Agency issued an alert that non-prescribed drugs can be cut with “tranquillisers or even toxic substances”.

Source Irish Sun