Mark Speight found dead

[Pumpkin Becki]

It just goes to show...just because people choose to be on tv, you don't really know them, or the pressures they are under in their real life.

It's very sad, and a truely strange place to choose to end your life in.

[Elijay]

I don't know much about him as I don't watch much TV. All I know it's such a waste of young lives.

Apparently the use of cocaine has more than doubled among 16- to 24-year-olds since the start of the decade and Britain remains one of the countries with the highest level of cocaine abuse, along with Spain and Italy. There's also been a significant drop in price for the drug and it's fast replacing ecstasy on the club scene.

Lenient treatment of drug-abusing celebs is sending a damaging message to impressionable young people. Amy Winehouse was questioned by police but not arrested over a video that appeared to show her smoking crack cocaine. Pete Doherty, meanwhile, was given a suspended jail sentence and a 12-month drug rehabilitation order last year after pleading guilty to possession of crack cocaine, heroin, ketamine and cannabis. Kate Moss has been interviewed by police over photographs of her allegedly taking cocaine, but no charges were brought against her. Chelsea FC sacked their Romanian striker, Adrian Mutu, after he tested positive for cocaine in 2004. The police never became involved.

Peer pressure must be extremely difficult to resist.

[HeyWayne]

I was quite shocked to learn he was 42, I thought he was younger.