PARAMEDICS were delayed responding to a drug-collapse 999 incident in Newton Abbot because of a location hiccup, an inquest heard.

But medical experts insisted the 10-minute hold-up getting to tragic 15-year-old Leah Kerry wouldn’t have changed the fatal outcome.

Emergency services were called to Bakers Park last summer after schoolgirl Leah took three ecstasy-type pills.

The teenager started to hallucinate, vomit and fit after taking the ‘Netflix and Chill’ drugs which she bought off a dealer in the town hours earlier.

A friend, who made the 999 call just before 2am on July 15, wasn’t local to the area and all she knew was that she was in Bakers Park.

The call handler searched for Bakers Park on his system and clicked the first one – Bakers Park in Holne on Dartmoor.

After 10 minutes the emergency services found Leah and her friends in the right park where they spent more than half-an-hour trying to help her.

Salisbury-based Leah, on a family trip to Devon, was taken to Torbay Hospital but died a few hours later.

Forensic pathologist Deborah Cook told an inquest in Torquay on Thursday (April 19) that she felt the delay would not have made a difference because Leah was already having a seizure.

The youngster was born in Torquay but had been living in the Wiltshire town with her mother and brother.

Leah and her mum, Sarah Forbear, drove down to Devon on July 14 to spend the weekend with Leah’s grandmother who was celebrating her birthday.

Leah was dropped off at Newton Abbot train station to meet an old friend and spend the night at another pal’s house in Torquay.

Leah and her friend met up with a bigger group of people before going to buy the ecstasy pills from a dealer in Cricketfield car park.

The inquest was told that Leah swallowed three tablets but two of her friends shared just half of one.

Dr Cook said tests carried out on Leah revealed she had ecstasy in her system as well as low levels of break-down cocaine and ketamine.

She said it was possible the Netflix pill was contaminated with the other drugs but couldn’t rule out the fact that Leah might have taken them earlier.

‘When you buy drugs on the street there is no way of knowing what you are getting,’ she revealed.

The medical expert told the inquest no trace of alcohol or cannabis was found in Leah’s body.

Det Sgt Suzie Ranch said Leah was found lying face down on grass in the park after suffering a seizure.

She revealed that the drug dealer, Jacob Khanlarian, had been jailed for three years after admitting four counts of supplying ecstasy and one of supplying cannabis.

DS Ranch said the drugs were unlawfully supplied but Leah had lawfully consumed them - and there was no evidence that she was forced to take them.

South Devon Coroner Ian Arrow ruled Leah’s death was drug-related.