The cousin of a 15-year-old girl who died after taking three ecstasy tablets has been convicted of giving her the fatal pills.
Tragic Shakira Pellow collapsed in a park after taking the high-strength drugs at her home with friends.
Oakley Willoughby, 18, picked up the drugs for Shakira and handed the pills to her, Truro Crown Court was told.
The teenager died from multiple cardiac arrests and organ failure after taking the pills on July 6, 2018 in Camborne, Cornwall.
Willoughby had denied supplying 15 tablets of a Class A drug, Cornwall Live reports.
Another man, 18-year-old Joshua Ward, supplied the MDMA to Willoughby - who was asked to pick up the pills by Shakira before handing the drugs to her.
Willoughby had claimed that the first he knew about what happened was when he found Shakira collapsed on the ground.
Ward had previously pleaded guilty to supplying the drugs.
Following her death, Shakira's family shared a harrowing photo of her in hospital in the hope it warns others not to take drugs.
The schoolgirl died in her mum's arms.
Prosecutor Jason Beal earlier told the jury: “Oakley denied he was also involved, denied he was the man to whom Joshua Ward gave the tablets, and that he was the man who passed them on to his cousin."
The court heard how in the days leading up to her death, Shakira messaged Ward to see if he could “sort pills” for her and some friends.
Eventually Ward agreed to sell 15 tablets of MDMA to Shakira for £90.
The pair arranged to meet at a scrapyard opposite the Tesco superstore in Camborne at around 8pm on Friday, July 6, 2018.
In a message, Shakira asked Ward what pills she was buying, to which he replied, “Duplos, took one last night and they are banging”.
Shakira replied that she “might be with Oakley Willoughby”, and Ward confirmed that he knew him.
The prosecution stated that Shakira asked Willoughby to collect the drugs from Ward. “She was nervous about going up to the car herself,” Mr Beal said.
The jury was shown CCTV footage of Willoughby walking out of the Tesco store in the direction of the scrapyard, as well as the arrival of Ward and his father in a car.
Mr Beal told the jury about a message Willoughby allegedly sent to Ward from Shakira’s phone, which said, “It’s Oakley. WYSG, I’m here now”.
“That indicates Oakley was using Shakira’s phone to tell Joshua Ward he was here now,” Mr Beal said.
“When Joshua Ward arrived he saw a group of young people standing by a path, and one person walking towards the car, who he knew and recognised as Oakley Willoughby, who appeared at the passenger side window. Joshua Ward handed him 15 tablets, and Oakley Willoughby handed over money in return.
“Shakira and a friend then walked back to Shakira’s house in Pengegon, on the way each of them took three of the ecstasy tablets, blue in colour and named Duplo.
“When they got back to Shakira’s house the tablets were handed out to other friends, and they took theirs. It wasn’t long before the affects became obvious. Shakira’s friend was physically sick, and the group left the house and went to an area known as ‘the court’ in Pengegon park."
Other people including Willoughby were there, Mr Beal said, and after a while Shakira began shaking before collapsing on the ground.
An ambulance was called at 10.30pm, and Shakira was taken to Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro. Willoughby accompanied his cousin in the ambulance.
Mr Beal told the court that Willoughby used Shakira’s phone to send a message to her mother, asking her to call him.
On route to the hospital Shakira suffered a cardiac arrest, and she died the following morning as a result of multiple organ failure, due to the toxic effects of MDMA use.
Police seized Shakira’s clothing, which contained an MDMA tablet in one of the pockets. Blue tablets containing a higher than average amount of MDMA were also discovered at Shakira’s home by police.
At 1am Willoughby was arrested at the hospital, and taken to a police custody centre.
He denied buying the tablets from Ward, but agreed he had used Shakira’s phone to contact him about “a silent rave in St Day”.
When Willoughby was interviewed again, he denied sending any messages from Shakira’s phone, including the one sent to her mother.
