At the age of seventeen Ciaran was introduced to ecstasy and with the prices he was paying, he could get a lot and word had got to his mother's friend, she was looking for a large amount but wanted to try them first, so when Ciaran and his friend Mr C picked theirs up for the night, they put two in an envelope and wrote "Two little ones just like we said love Mr C and Ciaran" and the slid it under Ciaran's mother's bedroom door, she had the ability to lock the door from the outside so they didn't have to worry about the children getting their hands on them.
Several friends of Ciaran and Mr C inhabited two supported housing, houses across the road from each other and they were both party houses, travelling back and forth from each other, sharing his sweets with his friends as is his friends Mr C. The night had run its course for Ciaran and Mr C and Mr C wanted to go and see his girlfriend so they said their goodbyes and left.
With luck they were able to avoid the town centre, even if it was as close as the boarder and it didn't take long for them to reach Mr C's girlfriend's place, not how Ciaran was expecting his night to end and to make what was about happen worse, Ciaran had consumed fifteen ecstasy tablets.
Mr C is now led on the pavement, his head in the crossed legs of his girlfriend and he was overdosing, he had twelve tablets. As if Ciaran took a miracle cure to the effects of ecstasy, he sobers up and kicks in to gear and tells Mr C's girlfriend to call an ambulance, he knew that meant the police coming, but it was also his friends only chance for survival.
While Mr C's girlfriend is calling an ambulance, Ciaran preforms CPR and successfully resuscitates but it was not long before he went in to cardiac arrest again, Ciaran preforms CPR again and again, this was the seventh time Ciaran had resuscitated Mr C.
Ciaran is now looking up and down the road, it is now two am and they are on a road pack either side, so much so there wouldn't be much more space for the ambulance to drive down and when Ciaran looked up the road and could see a car parked in the middle of the road, it had lights on top of the vehicle but its headlights were off, Ciaran runs out in to the middle of the road, he starts jumping up and down waving his arms like a mad man.
Ciaran turns to Mr C and his girlfriend confused he explains to her the car still isn't moving, but then all of a sudden the road lit up, from the top of the road both the rapid medic car and ambulance as well as several police officers on foot, from the bottom several police vehicles and a large number of police officers on foot, Ciaran has a reputation for being both incredibly fast and with agility, the police know they have to prepared should they need to chase him and Ciaran was completely honest with the paramedics emergency call centre so the police knew who they were responding to.
Within seconds the three of them were completely surrounded by police with two paramedics and they were asking what he had taken, Ciaran used patient confidentiality against the paramedics in an attempt to force them under their legal obligation, to ask the police to leave and when that failed after the police used safety for the paramedics as a priority, Ciaran gave the paramedics the information they needed. Mr C was now in his eighth cardiac arrest that Ciaran witnessed but instead of resuscitating him, the paramedics get him straight on to bed and in the ambulance.
The police place Ciaran in handcuffs and while walking him to the police van and read him his rights for the charge of suppling a class A substance, under suspicion of course, the walk to the back of the police van, before putting him inside they search him and while they do, they explain to him that under section 18 pace in the search act, they will be driving to his house to search the property. Ciaran wasn't found with anything on him and nor was his friend, but because Ciaran was arrested for a drug offence within two miles from his property, this allowed the police entry without a warrant.
Two minutes later and the police are leading me to the front door, they knock on the door and Ciaran's mother answers, she is already losing her mind and after a brief explanation from the police she allows them in to the house and leads them to Ciaran's room. Walking to Ciaran's room you had to walk to the back of the house on the ground floor, in to the kitchen and out the back door that leads to a conservatory, you then turn left and down to the other end where there is another entrance to his room, the main door was broken and unable to open making this the only entrance.
While the police searched the room Ciaran remained in the back of the police van, they had been allowed to do this because it was his mother's property and she was present. Once the police had finished searching his room, his mother brought Ciaran's three youngest siblings to the back of the police van and started shouting comments about him being a great role model.
The first hour was hell for Ciaran, the effects from the ecstasy a came back slightly and that made it hard for him to sleep, the police are refusing give him any news about his friend. After an hour of laying down and worrying about Mr C, Ciaran falls asleep thinking how could this happen to him, is he going to be released or is he going to be remanded.
Ciaran wakes up several times over thirty hours in custody, but it wasn't until the last time that reality quickly set in, officers came to the cell door to ask him wanted he wanted for breakfast and that once he has eaten, he will be taken to the custody desk to be fully booked in, the officer told him that it needs to be completed while he was sober.
The booking process didn't take long, it was very relaxed and slow paced, once this was completed everything sped up very fast, Ciaran was led to an interview where his is going to be interviewed by two detective's. The start of the interview was pretty standard, where did they both get the stuff? who gave to who? and that's when one of the officers announces for the recoding, that his going to suspend the interview and follow another line of enquiry, he follows the procedure of turning off the tape and then leaves.
Ciaran is really nervous, he knew that he had several stolen phones and bicycles, as well as a quantity of cash in his room, the officer that had stayed with Ciaran while the other officer was making his enquires, turns to him and tells him that his colleague is contacting the hospital for an update on Mr C's condition, the officer tells Ciaran that his colleague hopes Mr C doesn't make it so they can charge him with manslaughter as well as suppling class A Drugs.
The officer returns and the interview starts again, but this time they're not holding back now and then they pull the envelope out a folder they had on the desk, Ciaran continues to respond with "No comment". After forty-five minutes the officers end the interview and bring Ciaran back to his cell.
Back in his cell Ciaran starts to feel some confidence in his current situation, he wasn't sure what it was but once the officer returned, Ciaran felt frustration and anger from him, Ciaran decides to roll his socks in to a ball and kick them around the cell to pass time, his socks hit the wrong part of his foot and end up in the toilet. Ciaran sits on the cell bed and as he did, the cell door starts to make the rattling sounds it does when the keys are put inside and turns, the cell door opens and the officer tells Ciaran to get ready to be released.
Ciaran rushes to get ready and to the custody desk, he was being released with no further action and while the officer was processing his release, Ciaran ask about his friend, the officer tells him that his friend is alive and well, not only that but he also told the investigating officer he gave Ciaran the ecstasy and that is why he was being released.
Stepping out Ciaran takes a deep breath of the fresh air thinking about how luck he and Mr C was and during that thought Mr C shouts his name from the entrance of the driveway that leads to the custody area, Mr C's first questions was where are your socks.
Two weeks later Ciaran and Mr C hear about another party, Ciaran was nervous to go if Mr C planned to take more ecstasy but knew that if anything did happen, they would likely move him somewhere else to call an ambulance and nobody would wait, especially after what happened to Ciaran so he agreed to go. Ciaran as well as everyone else was very mindful about how many Mr C had access to.
They had a great night and neither had taken much, the night started to end early so Ciaran and Mr C decided to leave, walking down the street at one am and having a great conversation when Mr C tells Ciaran he doesn't feel good, he asks him if they can stop and take a seat, Mr C sits on the step of a closed pub and then seconds later vomits multiple times, scared after the first time Mr C asks Ciaran to call for an ambulance and while scared for his future he still calls.
While explaining the situation this time, Ciaran explains it in such a way as to suggest his drink being spiked, Ciaran had said that Mr C only had two drinks and he is someone that can handle a lot more than that, once Ciaran confirmed it was just the both of them, the control centre operator sent an ambulance and luckily for Ciaran it arrived alone.