Rachel Whitear
Deceased Person
1979 – 2000
Who was Rachel Whitear?
Rachel Jayne Whitear was a British student from Ledbury, Herefordshire who died following a heroin overdose. Her death in May 2000 led to a large-scale anti-drugs campaign in Britain, particularly in secondary schools, when her parents allowed a police photograph to be shown publicly – it showed her discoloured body collapsed in the fetal position. The school campaign was centred on a 22-minute video called Rachel's Story. The campaign was seen as an equivalent of the anti-ecstasy drive undertaken after the death of British school girl Leah Betts in 1995 and a parallel incident culminating in the death of Australian schoolgirl Anna Wood in Sydney.
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- Born
- Feb 6, 1979
Ledbury - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Bath Spa University
- Died
- May 10, 2000
Exmouth
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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