Man jailed for selling m-cat to young mum who died after taking the party drug in a bid to try and lose weight
Tragic Kirsty Hughes took the drug after internet trolls told her she was fat
A MAN in his 20s who sold four bags of "meow meow" drugs to a tragic mum-of-two has been jailed for just one year.
Jamie Cross had earlier confessed to supplying mephedrone after Kirsty Hughes thought it would help her to lose weight.
Cross, 23, from Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, sold the 26-year-old the bags of the white crystals in October last year.
Ms Hughes had arranged to collect the drugs after cruel internet trolls taunted her about her weight.
The young mum took them before bed and was found "panic stricken" in the middle of the night by her terrified father.
She admitted she had taken meow meow, also known as M-Cat, before she collapsed and suffered two heart attacks.
Her desperate father gave her the kiss of life at their home in Merthyr Tydfil but his daughter died in hospital two days later.
After Ms Hughes' death cops traced Cross through WhatsApp messages and texts on the tragic mum's phone.
Speaking at his daughter's inquest in Aberdare, Wales, her heartbroken dad Kevin Hughes said: "She was sweating and she said: "My head's bursting.
"I asked her if she's taken anything and she said meow meow.
"She said 'I'm sorry Dad, I'll never take it again. Look after my boys, I think I'm dying'."
Her parents also told the inquest how Ms Hughes had gained some extra weight after having sons Harvey, three, and Alfie, 18 months.
On the night she picked up the meow meow she had gone out to pick up a Chinese meal for her parents but refused to eat any of it herself.
She popped out shortly before 10pm on October 30 last year telling her dad she was going to get cigarettes.
Whilst out she met Cross at a petrol station and picked up the drugs.
Mephedrone reduces a person's appetite meaning regular users can experience dramatic weight loss.
Glamorgan Valleys Coroner Andrew Barclay has earlier recorded a narrative verdict that Kirsty's death was drug-related.