Drugs thought to have caused rock festival death of teenager

The 19-year-old, from Edinburgh, collapsed in the main area at the RockNess festival on Saturday night.

He was taken to the hospital tent and stabilised before being transferred to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness but died there yesterday after failing to respond to treatment.

Police said a post-mortem examination was awaited to establish cause of death but confirmed it was suspected he may have taken drugs.

Officers also confirmed a further two people who were taken to hospital from the festival were thought to have taken the legal high benzo fury.

The 19-year-old girl and a 20-year-old man were still in hospital yesterday where their condition was said to be not life-threatening.

Police have also named two men killed in a road crash involving a bus taking people to the RockNess. Van driver Mark McFarlane, 38, and his passenger Barry Murray, 28, from the Glasgow area, died in the collision with the bus on the A9, at Ralia in the Highlands.