Boarding school 'Ecstasy binge': Pupils taken ill at Harrow, the prestigious all-boys' school where fees cost £37,000 a year

Students at a prestigious all-boys boarding school had to be treated by paramedics last week after taking a suspected ‘bad batch’ of Ecstasy pills.

Staff at £37,350-a-year Harrow School in North West London were forced to call for paramedics after the three boys complained of feeling unwell.

The teenagers are believed to have purchased 20 Ecstasy tablets from a drug dealer in the nearby town centre before heading back to their house where they later took the pills before collapsing at around midnight.

One of the pupils at the school had to be rushed to Northwick Park Hospital while the other two were treated at the scene.

The sixth-form students, all aged about 17, have now been suspended from the school following the incident last Wednesday.

It is understood that one of the pupils has now left the 260 acre school.

A source told The Sun: ‘The boys went into Harrow town centre last Wednesday night and bought 20 pills from a dealer.

‘They took some but they are thought to have been a bad batch of Ecstasy and they all became ill.

‘There was a major panic and staff and the matron were called.