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The heartbroken dad of tragic teen Grace Handling is ramping up his campaign for a law change targeting drug dealers. Stewart Handling will directly lobby law chiefs undertaking a review of homicide laws.

The grieving dad of a teenager who died after taking ecstasy has called for a law targeting killer drug dealers.

Grieving families left heartbroken by the not proven verdict are hopeful it will be scrapped after a Scottish Government consultation on the issue. Stewart Handling, father of tragic teenager Grace Handling, and Marie Kearney, whose son Craig died after being run over by a taxi, believe the consultation could finally trigger change.

ecstasy has backed calls to review Scotland’s “ghastly” not proven verdict after watching the man who gave her the drug walk free from court.Grace Handling was 13 when she died after taking pills given to her by Callum Owens at his home in Irvine, Ayrshire, on the last day of school in June 2018.Owens went on trial at the High Court in Glasgow last year accused of killing Grace and admitted he had supplied the youngster with the tablets before finding her dead and fleeing.The 20-year-old was acquitted of culpable ­homicide when a jury found the case against him not proven.Grace’s dad Stewart, 51, is backing calls by First Minister Nicola ­Sturgeon for a review of the verdict, which is only open to jurors in ­Scotland, saying it is robbing

Callum Owens, from Irvine, said he gave his friend Grace permission to take a tablet when she went to visit him at his home at Arran Place around 7pm on June 28, 2018.He said he also took an ecstasy pill and woke up to find her dead on his living room floor, but he denied killing her.At the High Court in Glasgow a jury found the case against Mr Owens not proven and he walked free from court.The court heard that Grace, who died of ecstasy intoxication, had taken the drug before in the months leading  to her death and her mother and big sister Danielle, 20, had both warned her of the dangers.Mr Owens told the court that he has not taken ecstasy since July 2018.Before the jury came back with their verdict Grace's dad Stewart knelt in

court heard yesterday.Callum Owens said they both took the drug from a pack of about nine pills he had and then fell asleep.But when he woke up she was “cold to touch” and had stopped breathing.The court was told he tried unsuccessfully to give her CPR before leaving the property and throwing away the pills.The 19-year-old was speaking during his trial at the High Court in Glasgow in which he denies the culpable homicide of Grace at his home in Irvine, on June 28, 2018.He told the jury that his friend Grace came to visit him at about 7pm or 8pm.He confirmed they had each taken an ecstasy tablet.Alex Prentice QC, prosecuting, told jurors in his closing speech that they should return a guilty verdict.He said: “Grace went to his house and he

The teenager accused of killing 13-year-old Grace Handling told a friend he gave her Ecstasy pills and she died in his arms, a court has heard.

Ecstasy admitted to police he had given her pills. Detective Sergeant Euan Bell was giving evidence at the trial of Callum Owens, 19, who denies the culpable homicide of Grace by supplying her with the drug at his home in Irvine, Ayrshire, on June 28, 2018.

ecstasy pills and she died in his arms.Callum Owens, 19, denies the culpable homicide of Grace at his home in Irvine on June 28, 2018, by supplying her with ecstasy.His friend Alisha McLean, 18, from Stevenson, Ayrshire, told the High Court in Glasgow she received Facebook messages from Owens in which he said: “I’m going, probably never coming back,” and minutes later he revealed: “Killed a c*** man.”McLean asked Owens “How,” and he replied: “They chocked on their sick in my gaff.”She then asked: “U never killed them then,” and Owens told her: “I gave her the pills tho.”The jury heard that Owens begged his friend not to hate him and said the death had scarred him.When asked who was dead in his house, Owens replied: “Wee Grace Handling,” and