Tributes are paid to 'one of a kind' 18-year old who died after taking MDMA - one of four youngsters to suffer weekend drug deaths in north east

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Tributes have been paid to a 'one of a kind' 18-year-old who was one of four youngsters to die in suspected drug incidents in the North East over the weekend. 

Mark Johnston had been with friends at an upstairs flat in Washington, Tyne and Wear, in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Police believe he took a quantity of MDMA and fell seriously ill at 3.50pm at the flat. Two women, believed to be family members, rushed to the scene. 

Neighbours described their distress after one briefly got into the ambulance with Mark. Online tributes included: 'Rip Mark Johnston one of a kind.' 

Another wrote: 'Rest easy my friend. You will be missed.' 

He became the third of four young people in the North East to die as a result of taking drugs on a weekend of tragedy. 

One tenant told the Mirror: 'For the past 18 months it's been a horrible place to live because there has been nothing but noise, drunkenness and disruption to everyone's lives.

'There was a part there in the early hours of Saturday, it looked as though there were a lot of people in the flat, a mixed group of young men and women.

'Then suddenly in the afternoon ambulances started turning up and a young lad was carried out.  It was absolutely awful.

'He was no more than a boy, a young lad, and he's lost his life needlessly. I feel so sorry for his family, they were distraught. 

'Anyone who saw that happening wouldn't go near drugs again in their life.'

Mark was a former pupil at Biddick School and only turned 18 during the summer. He was described by a member of his family as a 'kind, nice, funny young lad'.

Police investigating the tragic deaths of four young people at the weekend in the North east have made an 11th arrest on suspicion of drugs-related offences.

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