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Female accountant, 28, dies 'after using legal high GBL at wake for friend who was killed taking same drug'
By Emma Reynolds
An accountant died after allegedly taking legal high GBL at a wake for a friend - who is thought to have been killed by the same lethal party drug.
Aston Martin worker Carl Fearon, 24, was found dead at his flat in Birmingham at 1pm on Saturday and Lynette Nock, 28, died hours later at her home in Northfield.
Mother-of-one Miss Nock died at a memorial party for Mr Fearon held at her home at 9pm the same day.
Tragic pair: Carl Fearon, left, died after apparently taking legal high GBL - just hours before his friend Lynette Nock, right, died after allegedly using the same party drug
Fresh agony: Miss Nock's home in Northfield, where she died during a memorial service for Mr Fearon at 9pm on the day of his death
Two other men were also found unconscious at the address and were taken to hospital for emergency treatment. One is believed to still be in intensive care, while the other man has been discharged.
Post-mortem and toxicology tests were due to take place today on the bodies of Mr Fearon, from Smethwick, and Miss Nock, from Streetly. But police are investigating claims the friends may have taken the deadly dance club drug GBL - an industrial cleaner usually used on alloy wheels - before their deaths.
Miss Nock, a qualified accountant at Walsall Housing Group, had a ten-year-old son called Christopher Halliday.
The former Streetly College student was described by her heartbroken parents Dave and Tracie, who live in Queslett, as a 'golden girl who would help anybody'. 'She was really bright, in fact school was too easy for her,' said Mr Nock, 69. 'She was like an agony aunt and was so kind that she would get into trouble with debt collectors because she would lend her friends money.
'The whole family is in shock. It’s just tragic when parents lose a child.'
Former Birmingham paramedic Pete Jones, 43, paid tribute to the tragic pair last night and claimed he had been told Mr Fearon had taken the drug at a Friday night party.
He said: 'I understand that he used the drug sometimes to help him sleep and people who had been at the party told me he had been on GBL.
'Carl was loved by so many, he really was one of a million. He was the most genuine and lovely guy.
'I knew Lynette really well too. She was a lovely and sweet girl and was also quite shy. Both were really loved by all their friends.'
Mr Jones, who is currently a security expert in Iraq, first met Mr Fearon when he worked as a paramedic in nightclubs across the city and they soon became firm friends.
He said he had noticed how the use of ‘legal high’ GBL - also known as Gamma-Butyrolactone - had rapidly increased in recent years.
It is not illegal to buy GBL for cleaning use, but it is classed as a Class C drug if sold for consumption. Lynette Nock Shocking episode: Mr Fearon, pictured with a friend, died at his city centre flat at 1pm after allegedly taking the drug, which is often used to make alloy wheels
Rave drug: Both Miss Nock, left, and Mr Fearon, ri
Rave drug: Both Miss Nock, left, and Mr Fearon, right, had apparently used the legal high often used for making alloy wheels
Horror: Mr Fearon's devastated friends staged a get-together to celebrate his life on the day of his death - but tragedy struck again
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