Another Music Festival drug overdose, this time at FOMO - Noise11.com
Lost Paradise

Another Music Festival drug overdose, this time at FOMO

by Paul Cashmere on January 14, 2019

in News

A 19-year old girl has died after overdosing on MDMA taken at the FOMO music festival in Sydney.

Alexandra Ross-King was partying with friends at the festival when she fell ill from the pills and was taken to the medical tent. Around 6pm she was taken to hospital but could not be revived.

Ross-King is the fifth drug-related death from this current Festival season that started in September.

Her death puts more pressure on State governments to start mandatory pill-testing at festivals. Both the NSW and Victorian governments are looking into pill testing but the consideration has to be for the ongoing effect of allowing illegal pills to come into festivals without being confiscated.

While pills may be tested as genuine, once inside there is no guarantee as to how many the ticket buyer will take or take into consideration the effect of the drug when mixed with alcohol.

36 people were arrested at FOMO in Sydney this past weekend. Already families are starting to blame the government, as is the case with the Ross-King family, and not their own children who died from self-inflicted behaviour.

What governments do need to do is eliminate the legal loop-holes where the courts go easy on drug-dealers. Just last week a NSW court sentenced drug dealer Tina Than to just 80 hours community service after being caught with 394 ecstasy pills at the Knockout Games of Destiny Festival in Sydney. She was at the event with the clear intent of selling the drugs for a cash benefit, yet was given a slap on the wrist from the legal system.

19-year old Callum Brosnan died at the Festival after a drug overdose. He isn’t coming back after 80 hours after being given a death sentence from drugs.

Follow Noise11 on Twitter for news as it happens

For news as it happens follow Noise11 on Facebook

Noise11.com

Listen to the Noise11 Music News channel now at iHeartRadio

Related Posts

Joe Camilleri Apia Good Times 2021 photo by Noise11
Joe Camilleri’s Vintage Guitar Collection Stolen

Joe Camilleri’s home in regional Victoria has been broken into and the thief has taken nine of his prized guitars.

3 days ago
Julian McMahon in The Surfer 2025
Julian McMahon Dies At Age 56 After Private Battle With Cancer

Australian actor Julian McMahon has died at the age of 56 after a private battle with cancer.

3 days ago
Dog Trumpet Live Forever
Reg Mombassa and Peter O’Doherty Go Track By Track Through Dog Trumpet’s ‘Live Forever’

On 11 July 2025 Dog Trumpet will release their ninth album ‘Live Forever’.

4 days ago
Colin Hay performs at the Recital Centre in Melbourne on 11 February 2018. Photo by Ros O'Gorman
Colin Hay To Release Man @ Work Volume 2

Men at Work’s Colin Hay has made a sequel to his 2003 solo album ‘Man @ Work’ where he re-recorded his Men At Work and solo songs.

4 days ago
Russell Hitchcock Take Time
Russell Hitchcock of Air Supply Solo Album ‘Take Time’ To Be Reissued

Russell Hitchcock’s second solo album ‘Take Time’ will have a limited reissue through MelodicRock Classics.

5 days ago
John Paul Young One Foot In Front
John Paul Young’s Long Out of Print ‘One Foot In Front’ To Be Reissued

‘One Foot In Front’, John Paul Young’s long unavailable 1983 album, is getting a re-release through Andrew McNeice’s MelodicRock Classics.

5 days ago
Crowded House perform at Rod Laver Arena 10 December 2024 photo by Winston Robinson
More Crowded House Red Hot Summer Shows Sellout

The Crowded House Red Hot Summer shows are doing fast work around Australia will four shows on the tour now sold out.

6 days ago