A TEENAGE dealer at a secret music festival was caught after her drugs made some of her young friends ill and she took them to the first aid tent.

Security staff at the Elements Festival near Okehampton became so alarmed at the number of people seeking medical help that they started searching visitors to the tent.

Rosana Warshawski, aged 19, was caught with ketamine and ecstasy when she took a friend to the first aid post.

She had £960 worth of drugs but claimed she had found the 53 ecstasy (MDMA) tablets on a hammock, Exeter Crown Court was told.

She was arrested at the festival at Jacobstowe, which was advertised as being held at a secret location in West Devon and described as ‘Three days of ramshackling flambunkles, music, art, food, booze and wizardry’.

Warshawski, of Abervagenny, South Wales, admitted possession with intent to supply class A MDMA and class B ketamine.

She was ordered to receive nine months drug rehabilitation and 15 days probation supervision under a one year community order by Judge Mr Justice Dingemans.

He told her: ‘You are of previous good character and I have read references from friends and relatives. You started abusing cannabis from the age of 15 and ketamine from the age of 17.

‘It developed into a £100 to £200 a week habit and inevitably affected your academic ability. You built up debts and ended up supplying drugs at this festival.

‘Your role was somewhere between a lesser role with social supply to friends and a significant role because you expected a financial reward.

‘You have already taken substantial steps to address your drug problem. It is common ground that drugs destroy lives and no good can come from them.

‘They lead inevitably to people being unable to make a full contribution to society. This is an opportunity for you to change the path you stepped on when you were 15.’

Mr Ian Graham, prosecuting, said staff at the festival on June 17 this year became concerned at the number of young people going to the medical tent.

He said: ‘They started searching people coming to the tent. The defendant attended, not under the influence of drugs, but out of concern for friends who were being treated.

‘She was found with a bum bag containing a quantity of drugs. She made admissions but said she did not consider herself a drug dealer but was providing to friends.’

She had 14 wraps of ketamine and 53 MDMA tablets, but said she had found them on a hammock.

Mr Rupert Taylor, defending, said Warshawski was an intelligent woman who had already started working with the addiction service in Wales and planned to go to university in September.

He said her involvement in drugs started at a time of family difficulties.

She had worked as a waitress but was currently unable to do so as a result of a recent knee operation.