TAYLA Woodard made a confession to her parents that, undoubtedly, they dreaded hearing.

She had been, she told them, taking drugs in her first year at Bournemouth University.

Tayla was studying on the multimedia journalism course and had plans to be a showbiz writer. Her life was cut short when she took a fatal overdose of the drug MDMA on a night out in London.

She had travelled up from Bournemouth that day.

If any good at all can come from a such a tragedy, it must surely be that other young people will hopefully think twice before taking a terrible chance with their own life.