Mum shares image of son who faced 1% chance of survival after taking £2 tablet laced with poison

"He was hooked up to so many machines which were the only things keeping him alive. He had nothing - no bowels, no kidneys, no liver, no lungs, no heart and no brain."

Mum shares image of son who faced 1% chance of survival after taking £2 tablet laced with poison

The mother of a teenage boy who defied a 1% chance of survival diagnosis after taking drugs laced with rat poison, has shared pictures of him in an effort to deter youths from taking MDMA this party season.

Odhran (Odi) Hearty Coburn's temperature rocketed to 45 degrees and he went into multi-organ failure after taking a £2 MDMA or ecstasy tablet while at the Belsonic Concert in Belfast on June 25 last.

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