AN ULVERSTON teenager collapsed and died in a hotel room after taking cocaine, ecstasy and laughing gas during a night out with friends at the Warehouse Project in Manchester, an inquest heard.

Former Kendal College student Lauren Atkinson was described by her parents as a popular 19-year-old who loved raves and festivals, and ‘lived life to the full.’

The young beautician, who worked at Eleanor Kate's Nail and Beauty in Market Street, Ulverston, had been partying before falling ill at the City Warehouse ApartHotel in the early hours of December 10, 2016.

Lauren’s friends told the coroner she had drunk vodka and taken cocaine, two pink pills known as ‘Teddy Bears’ and nitrous oxide (also known as laughing gas) over the course of their night out.

She was declared dead at the apartment that morning.

In a statement read out to Manchester coroner’s court, her father Nigel Atkinson said: “Lauren loved to socialise and lived life to the full. She had been to a couple of festivals and loved to party at the weekends. Both her mother and I had actively advised her against taking drugs.”

At the inquest into her death on Tuesday, Lauren’s friends described the moment she was found unresponsive on the floor.

Paramedics tried to revive Lauren for 22 minutes, but she was declared dead in the hotel room that morning.

The group had booked out two apartments for the night. Lauren was seen having at least three canisters of nitrous oxide, as well as cocaine and vodka, before they left for the popular nightclub, the court heard.

When they arrived at the Store Street venue, it is believed Lauren took two of the Teddy Bear pills.

Her friend Sophie Jackson, giving evidence in court, said Lauren had seemed fine until around 4.30am.

“She was a bit paranoid,” said Ms Jackson.

“She was anxious. She wasn’t complaining she was unwell but she made a comment about everyone looking at her. So I said shall we go? And we left around 4.30am to get a taxi.”

Lauren left with two friends to get a taxi back to the hotel. When she got back to the room, she locked herself in the bathroom.

Sophie and another friend, Shannon Mansell, managed to open the door by unlocking it with a knife.

They pulled her up off the floor and put her into bed, the court heard.

“She was complaining there was someone on the balcony, but there wasn’t. And she was pulling at her hair trying to get her bobble out so I helped her do it. I then left and went through to the other room to see who was back,” added Ms Jackson.

The girls went across to a separate apartment where their other friends were staying, leaving Lauren in bed. When another friend went to check on Lauren, she was found on the floor ‘having a fit’.

They managed to put her in one of the beds, but then Lauren stopped breathing and started turning blue, the court heard.

Her friends tried to revive Lauren with CPR before the paramedics and first responders from the fire service arrived to take over.

Despite efforts to save Lauren, she was declared dead at 6.24am.

Giving evidence in court, Lauren’s friend Jake Marston described someone running into the room where he was sleeping shouting Lauren was ‘fitting’.

Her friends described finding Lauren slumped next to a radiator with her ‘teeth chattering’ and jaw ‘clenched’.

Toxicologists found evidence of MDMA (ecstasy), MDA (amphetamine) and cocaine in Lauren’s bloodstream after her death.

Under evidence submitted to the court, Dr Emyr Benbow said Lauren’s death was caused by the toxicity of the three drugs.

Fiona Borrill, senior coroner for Manchester, described Lauren’s death as ‘every parent’s worse nightmare’.

Ms Borrill described the drugs Lauren had taken as ones that are ‘dangerous and should not be used’. The coroner added: “It’s quite clear to me Lauren and her friends had underestimated the risks and toxic effects of those drugs.”Ms Borrill concluded Lauren’s death was drug-related.