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Death of Hastings heroin coma woman

10:07am Wednesday 21st October 2009 in


A young woman who slipped into a heroin-induced coma more than eight years ago has died.

Amy Pickard, 25, died in Hastings. She was 17 when she slipped into a coma in 2001.

Amy suffered severe brain damage after experimenting with the drug for the first time.

Her mother Thelma posed for heart-breaking pictures at her daughter's hospital bedside.

In December 2007, it was reported she was emerging from the coma after taking a drug called Zolpidem.

An East Sussex coroner's officer confirmed today that Amy died on October 10.

Leave your tributes to Amy and messages of support to her mother Thelma below.

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Comments(12)

Sweatshop Tachinardi says...
10:45am Wed 21 Oct 09

Very sad news indeed.

Sad enough to warrant The Argus covering it when it actually happened instead of waiting until they read it elsewhere...

Thoughts go out to Thelma.

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Ken dodds dads dog died says...
11:26am Wed 21 Oct 09

Very sad

God bless

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2bobstan says...
1:29pm Wed 21 Oct 09

r-i-peace my sweehart love jahxx.

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cheezburger says...
1:31pm Wed 21 Oct 09

Im not sure about asking for tributes for someone who died because they took heroin. Also the use of the word 'experimenting' sounds like its trying to make it sound it was a reasonable thing to do. Its a tragedy for a young life to be thrown away like this, but the lesson should be it is very stupid to use heroin, it may likely kill you at worst, give you a life of misery at least.

Dont show this in soft focus Argus.

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GaryS9 says...
3:52pm Wed 21 Oct 09

Sad indeed, but a lesson for us all....

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bibble says...
4:06pm Wed 21 Oct 09

cheezburger wrote:
Im not sure about asking for tributes for someone who died because they took heroin. Also the use of the word 'experimenting' sounds like its trying to make it sound it was a reasonable thing to do. Its a tragedy for a young life to be thrown away like this, but the lesson should be it is very stupid to use heroin, it may likely kill you at worst, give you a life of misery at least. Dont show this in soft focus Argus.
A typically nasty comment from cheez. This young girl died. She didn't intend that to happen.


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cheezburger says...
5:03pm Wed 21 Oct 09

Its not a nasty coment at all. She didnt intend to die, but she did intend to take heroin.

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small dog says...
9:17pm Wed 21 Oct 09

it's not just that it was heroin she took for the first time, it could have been ecstasy or coke but it may have been the quality or impurity of the drug that caused this tragic loss. young people are going to experiment with drugs, that's just how it is these days but some of these drugs are cut with potentially harmful substances. this is a tragic accident and my sympathies go out to the mother and family.

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greeg says...
10:25pm Wed 21 Oct 09

Tragedy it is,but it would have been a state sponsored tragedy if the legalise narcotics brigade had their way.In fact,had it been up to these fools,she'd probably have been dead by the time she was 17.

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simon195 says...
5:53am Thu 22 Oct 09

look death or no death, everybody knows the facts, dabble in drugs and you pay a price,, no ifs no buts no sob stories, the facts are clear to all.. they inflict misery and nothing less, ok its tragic for this young lady course it is but make no mistake.. she would have been well aware of what she was dabbling in !!!

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King from Hove says...
8:54am Thu 22 Oct 09

Very sad consequence.Sorry for her parents who have suffered terribly.

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Bruce Gyngell says...
12:53pm Sat 24 Oct 09

yes lets all feel sorry, yes lets all bleat and mope in sorrow but yes let this PLEASE be an example to others!

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