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The dad of a teenager who tragically died after taking a single ecstasy pill has died 30 years after her death.

Paul Betts has died just days after the anniversary of his daughter Leah's death, after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease.

The Mirror has exclusively revealed that, according to friends, he never fully recovered from the pain of losing Leah, who died in November 1995, after taking a single ecstasy pill during her 18th birthday party at her home.

A family friend told the Mirror : “Paul is very sadly no longer with us. He never really got over Leah’s death, bless him. He was a lovely man and well respected. He died of a broken heart really.”

Paul, a former Met Police firearms officer, moved to the Scottish Highlands with his wife Janet, a former nurse

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