A woman told a jury yesterday that she found her daughter’s teenage friend collapsed before she died from taking ecstasy.
The 45-year-old said she tended to Cerys Reeve, 14, who was gargling and hot to the touch at her home in Greenock.
The witness said she believed Carys tried to speak to her but the words were “caught in her throat.”
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She stated Cerys was “fitting” and “rigid” before ambulance crews arrived.
Cerys was later taken to hospital where she died that morning after CPR was stopped around 8am.
James McCairn, 18, is accused of "recklessly and unlawfully" giving the "potentially lethal" class A drug to Cerys Reeve at his home in Greenock on July 13, 2020.
The culpable homicide charge claims the 14-year-old then took the ecstasy at another address in the town to the danger of her health, safety and life.
Cerys is then said to have died on the same date at Inverclyde Royal Hospital after allegedly "ingesting" the drug.
McCairn faces a separate charge of supplying ecstasy to others at a number of locations in Greenock between November 2019 and August last year.
This includes to Cerys, of Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, and other teenage girls.
McCairn is further accused of being concerned in the supply of cannabis and possession of cocaine.
He denies the charges at the High Court in Glasgow.
The court heard from the first witness who said she allowed Cerys to stay overnight with her 14-year-old daughter.
She said the girl were allowed to watch TV in the living room as she went to bed at midnight.
The woman she was woken up by the sound of a thud at 5am and went to investigate.
She told the jury that she saw Cerys lying on her back with her daughter at the other side of the bed.
Prosecutor Graeme Jessop asked if Cerys made any sounds and she replied: “Gargling sounds.”
Mr Jessop: “How was her body?”
The witness: “She was sweating really bad and really hot to touch. I saw sweat on her neck and face.”
She added that Cerys’ eyes were “wide open” and was “trying to say words but they were stuck in her throat struggling to talk.”
The woman said she was then told by her daughter that Cerys has taken MDMA.
The witness said: “Cerys just looked like she was fitting constantly - her body was rigid.”
A 999 call was made and crews tended to Carys who was later taken to Inverclyde Royal Infirmary.
The woman claimed she was told by her daughter that she had not taken MDMA, but when asked by police later that morning she admitted she had.
The witness also stated she was given a polythene bag which contained residue of white powder.
The court was earlier read a joint minute of agreed evidence.
Jurors were told that Cerys arrived at hospital after 6am and was put on a ventilator.
She was “noted to be rigid all over” with dilated pupils.
CPR was stopped at 8.08am.
It was discovered that she had 3.3 micrograms per litre of MDMA in her system.
A post mortem carried out determined the cause of as MDMA toxicity.
The trial continues before judge John McCormick.
