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Drug dealers using social media reached out to students at the university where two students died after an alleged drug tragedy within days of their arrival, it has been discovered.
Newcomers to Newcastle University, where Jeni Larmour and another 18-year-old were found dead over the weekend, had ‘business cards’ placed under their apartment doors as indicated by Instagram accounts.
The news comes when police confirmed that an 11th arrest, a 30-year-old man, had been made as part of the investigation into a tragic weekend in which two others died of alleged drug abuse.
Another student, a 21-year-old college student from Northumbria University, died after taking MDMA.
Police said an 18-year-old man from Washington, Tyne and Wear, who was not a student, also died over the weekend from the effects of MDMA.
Ansley Hirstein, 19, a psychology student at the University of Newcastle in Monterey, California, told how the cards gave details of an Instagram account where you could ‘send direct messages’ for drugs, reports Mirror.
She said: “I heard about the students who died on the news. I am in a private accommodation that has a lot of college kids. I don’t even know how they got in, but they put the cards under the doors.
“They are drug dealers and they give you their contact information on Instagram where you send them messages directly.
“We have fob keys to get in, but somehow they got access, it was only a few days after we got here. When you go to the account, there are pictures of drugs and they tell you what they sell.
“They not only handed them over to me, they were also under the neighbors’ doors.”
Susu, a business administration student from Sheffield, added: “We’ve been here less than a week, so I’m not sure how they knew we lived there.
“We had just moved in.
“I don’t know how they know the students are in our accommodation.”
Jeni, from Armagh, Northern Ireland, is believed to have been found around 6:05 a.m. Saturday in the Pont block at Park View residences in Newcastle.
The second, a cooler colleague, also 18 years old, was not found until 1:10 p.m. on Sunday.
The students in the blocks said they were unaware that the two girls had taken ketamine until they heard about it on the news Monday afternoon.
Orla Kennedy, 18, of North Shields, a freshman physics and astrophysics major, was forced to delay her arrival at her residence in Derwent, near the Pont block, due to a suspected coronavirus outbreak in the apartment she was in. about to install. share.
She said: “I found out because I have roommates who are still there and saw all the police activity.
“We did not know what had happened at the beginning. Since then there have been several rumors that it involved a massive amount of drugs or a smaller amount that turned out to be unreliable.”
Medical student Reen Alnoooryani, 18, a freshman medical student from Dubai also at Park View, said she was supposed to be at a seminar this week with one of the victims. “It’s just devastating,” she said.
Other students at Newcastle University recounted how traders had approached them on the street, raising fears that first-year traders would be targeted by traders within days of their arrival in the city for their studies.
Jeni and the other girl who died, still unnamed, had arrived less than 48 hours before they died.
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The floral tributes were placed outside the Jeni family home in Newtownhamilton.
The architecture and urban planning student was described as a role model for students at The Royal School, Armagh, where she was an assistant principal.
“Jeni came to the Royal School in Year 8 and in the following years she was a model student, exemplifying many of the values this school seeks to promote,” they said in a tribute.
“Her outstanding qualities as a student were recognized in her senior year when she was appointed assistant principal, a role she played to a very high standard.”
Northumbria police and university authorities said they had been conducting checks on student accommodation throughout the weekend.
Inspirational Chief Steve Wykes of the Northumbria Police stressed that they would crack down on any dealers found targeting students in the city.
He added: “There were some public messages in response to the incidents over the weekend. That was in collaboration with university partners and their communication teams.”
Officers are also patrolling the area where the two students died, and a police information van had been stationed nearby.
“We have a well-practiced set of protocols in terms of how we communicate with the student population and that would be through the university,” added Chief Insp Wykes.
Police urged anyone with information about the dealers to contact Northumbria Police at number 101, anonymously via Crimestoppers.
They have made 11 arrests in connection with the deaths.
The University of Newcastle has been contacted for an answer.
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