A MAN and a woman were today charged with killing a 10-year-old girl who died after taking the rave drug ecstasy.
Jade Slack - the youngest known victim of the drug - died in hospital in Lancaster in July after becoming ill at a house in Galgate near the city, where she had spent the afternoon with a friend.
Lancashire Police said Wayne Kenneth Wood, 21, of Highland Brow, Galgate, and Rebecca Lea Hodgson, 20, of Salford Road, Galgate, had been charged with unlawful killing and "other associated drugs offences
They are due to appear before Lancaster Magistrates Court on Thursday.
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