DEALERS who sold drugs which killed Prince’s Trust worker Nick Bonnie, 30, were condemned as a ‘heinous blot on our civilisation’ by a coroner.

Speaking at an inquest into Mr Bonnie’s death held in Stockport, coroner John Pollard said: “These drugs are manufactured and distributed by people who clearly have no care for the welfare of fellow human beings.

‘’They are morally bankrupt and form a heinous blot on our civilisation.”

Mr Bonnie, 30, from King’s Stanley, unknowingly took almost 15 times the recreational dose of Ecstasy before collapsing at the Warehouse Project in Manchester during a lads’ weekend with four friends.

The cause of death was given as MDMA and cocaine toxicity.

Tests showed Mr Bonnie had 4.42mg of MDMA in his blood – a typical recreational quantity normally measures just 0.3mg. He also had amphetamine and alcohol in his system.

Security manager Ivan Horsman explained that he saw Mr Bonnie fall over around 3am after opening a fire door.

“He seemed to lose his footing as he came out and fell to the floor flat on his back right in front of me,” he said.

“He was clammy and his speech deteriorated on the way to a medical station. He also began to have spasms in his arms and his legs stiffened.”

Mr Bonnie died two hours later at Manchester Royal Infirmary on September 28.

The inquest was told that four members of the group took MDMA and cocaine in the car and at a rented apartment before consuming more in the queue to the club.

Mr Pollard, who recorded a narrative verdict, said: “I suspect that he either took too many tablets or more likely he took the powder form of the drugs and didn’t know how much he was taking.

“Looking at all the facts it is very clear that while Nick had used drugs previously and that he was planning to use them again, he managed to keep this from his parents and partner.”

Police discovered that the drugs had been bought before the group left Stroud.

The hearing was told that while on their way to the hospital Mr Bonnie’s friends, Dean Neale, 30, Paul Tabb, 31, Simon Lloyd-Jones, 29, who did not take any drugs, and James Churchill, 31, decided to say the substances had been bought in the club. Paul Tabb said this was so Mr Bonnie’s parents would think their son had made a one-off ‘drunken mistake’ as they were unaware he took recreational drugs.

They were prosecuted for their action.