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Article: Rave death mourners warned drug abuse `is destroying young Scots'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 25, 1994
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MOURNERS at the funeral of Andrew Stoddart, the 20-year-old who
died after taking drugs at the Hanger 13 rave club in Ayr last
weekend, were told yesterday that a generation of young Scots was
being "destroyed" by drug abuse, writes John Arlidge.
At Rigside Parish Church in Lanarkshire, where relatives and
friends gathered to remember the former van driver who collapsed
after taking Ecstasy-type tablets, the local Church of Scotland
minister said that his "wicked" death should serve as a warning to
youngsters and their parents.
The Rev Lawrie Lennox told the 140- strong congregation: "What
happeneed to Andrew could have happened to anyone among hundreds
that night. No parents in the land ...