'Lucy was simply a young girl looking forward to her future that was cut so tragically short'

Two teenagers have been jailed for supplying drugs that killed a 16-year-old schoolgirl.

James Greaves, 19, and Taylor Rowsell, 18, have been locked up in a young offenders' institution after pleading guilty to supplying class A drugs. The drug supply was linked to the death of Exmouth Community College student Lucy Hill, who died on December 3, 2022.

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The pair were sentenced on Monday, November 4. Greaves, from Cornwall, was sentenced to three and a half years while Rowsell, from Devon, was sentenced to two years.

Exeter Crown Court heard Lucy had been among a group of young friends who had arranged and secured the illegal drugs through Rowsell, who had obtained these through Greaves.

Greaves had repurposed and repackaged MDMA into capsules and the two teens arranged and agreed how to transport the drugs to the group.

The police found evidence that the two had met earlier on Friday, December 2, 2022 at Newton Abbot railway station, where it is believed the MDMA capsules were handed over by Greaves to Rowsell.

The court heard that Lucy travelled from Exmouth for an evening out with the group of friends, and one of the friends had arranged to meet Rowsell in Exeter to buy the MDMA capsules. Each of the group took one or two capsules before attending an under-18s disco at the Move nightclub.

Shortly after they took the capsules, Lucy became unwell, and an ambulance was called. Officers were alerted by ambulance staff at around 12.30 am on Saturday, December 3, about concern for a teenage girl’s welfare after taking an unknown substance. Police were told later that she had died at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

An investigation was