Teen in laughing gas party tragedy

A teenager who is believed to have taken so-called “laughing gas” at a party in south-east London has died.

He was in cardiac arrest when officers arrived at the scene in Wolvercote Road at around 11.18pm on Saturday and is now in a critical condition in hospital.

Friend Calvert was taken fully to infirmary although they flattened within the neighborhood in Bexley on Thursday, but perished two hours later.

Police said the teen is believed to have attended a party where he may have been drinking alcohol as well as ingesting legal high nitrous oxide.

However, police are treating the death as unexplained.

It was thought they may have inhaled nitrous oxide, but they were said at the time to be recovering well. “He is got a brother and a pal”.

The Metropolitan Police said: “Next of kin have been notified”.

A resident of the flats said she saw “the poor boy laying unconscious”.

“He was in a really bad way, I remember he was really pale”.

Tributes left at the scene included: “One of the nicest boys I know”. Got a lot of great laughs with you!

“There was quite a few people watching”.

A Home Office campaign last year on the risks of legal highs showed that laughing gas was the second most popular drug among young adults in 2013/14 after cannabis, being more widely used than powdered cocaine and ecstasy.

Abusing nitrous oxide can lead to oxygen deprivation resulting in loss of blood pressure, fainting and even heart attacks.

“The research by asthmatic specialist found that 7.6 % of sixteen to 24-yearolds in Wales and Britain include accepted to having tried balloons, of referred to as INCHESgenerally obtainable” in outlets that promote peaks that were legal.