Colchester dealer's MDMA left 15-year-old in a coma

Kylan Kulloli was in a car with another drug dealer when he sold MDMA to two teenagers in Constable Close, West Mersea, last August.

One of the teenagers soon suffered from a “catastrophic medical event" as a direct result of taking the drug.

Ipswich Crown Court heard on Tuesday how Kulloli, who was 19 and receiving £1,000 a month in benefits when he was drug dealing, kept a machete and a lock knife at his home.

Deal - the teenagers bought the drugs in Constable Close, West Mersea (Image: Google Street View) ​Gavin Burrell, prosecuting, said the teenager who had an extreme reaction to the MDMA fell off his bike and hit his head before he was taken to Colchester Hospital and later Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

He was then taken to hospital in London where he remained for three months whilst he was treated for a collapsed left lung, liver failure, and a suspected bleed on the brain along with other serious conditions.

Two of those months were spent in a coma.

A victim impact statement, which was written by the teenager and read to the court by Mr Burrell, said: “I have no short-term memory as a result of what happened.

“As a result, I am struggling to process what happened to me emotionally and show emotion about it – it doesn’t seem quite real.

Jailed - Kylan Kulloli was sentenced after he admitted five drugs offences (Image: Essex Police) “I am told I will have to have yearly blood tests for the rest of my life.”

Mr Burrell said phones were seized from the addresses of other suspected drug dealers, with the devices showing messages which had been sent by Kulloli advertising ecstasy.

A subsequent search of Kulloli’s address in Acorn Close, Colchester, found cash, scales, a lock knife, and a machete in his bedroom.

He admitted one charge each of offering to supply cannabis, cocaine, ketamine, and ecstasy, and being concerned in the supply of ecstasy.

Daniel Setter, mitigating, said Kulloli played a minor role in the drug chain and passed on any cash to individuals above him.

Sentence - Kylan Kulloli appeared before Ipswich Crown Court on Tuesday (Image: Daniel Rees, Newsquest) He added Kulloli was vulnerable, had been placed in accommodation after he left the care system at the age of 18, and that he became a victim of "cuckooing" when dealers exploited his drug habit.

He said: “That accommodation became the address from which those higher up the chain operated.”

It was argued Kulloli did not prepare the drugs and that he was “at most, in the car from which the drugs were supplied”.

Recorder Sally O'Neill sentenced Kulloli, who was led from the dock in tears, to 30 months in a young offender's institution.