Gas and Solvent Use headlines October to December 2023

UK

Rohail Jillani took nitrous oxide before driving at 98mph and killing Nadia Yusuf, 17 A speeding motorist who filmed himself inhaling ‘hippy crack’ and drove close to 100mph before killing a 17-year-old girl in a crash has been jailed. 

Woman, 20, died from inhaling lighter fluid gases Ruby Williams, from March, had butane, isobutane and propane detected in her blood system, an inquest into her death heard. 

Driver high on nitrous oxide and recording on phone kills girl, 15, in horror crash into ravine A van driver who killed a schoolgirl while high on nitrous oxide and recording on his phone has been sentenced for causing death by dangerous driving.

Boy, 16, jailed for life for murdering teen who ‘tried to protect his friend’ Ben Moncrieff had been on a night out with friends in Bath city centre before he was murdered in the street in the early hours of Saturday, May 6 this year.

Boy, 17, stabbed to death by two teenagers ‘under influence of nitrous oxide’ A 17-year-old boy who moved from London to Yorkshire for a “safer life” was “hacked to death” by two teenagers who were “under the influence of nitrous oxide”, a court has heard.