A teenager has admitted selling ecstasy which led to the death of 13-year-old Carson Price.

Carson died on April 12 last year after taking three ecstasy pills formed in the shape of video game character ‘Donkey Kong’.

He was found “in and out of consciousness, pale and shaking” in Ystrad Mynach Park and was taken to the University Hospital Wales, Cardiff, where he later died.

A coroner later ruled that Carson, who was a pupil at Lewis School Pengam, died after taking an “excessive” amount of the drug and reacting violently to it.

Cwmbran Youth Court was told how the 14-year-old drug dealer used social media to sell the £2-a-time pills to Carson.

The two boys arranged to meet outside a garage for Carson to pay for the ecstasy.

Carson, the court heard, then started “acting strangely” – before collapsing.

The teary boy, who is now 15, was wearing a blue zip-up jacket and a black face mask, to court on Tuesday, July 28, and was accompanied by his parents.

Prosecutor Margaret Cunningham said the youngster sold Carson the killer drugs after arranging the deal online.

She said: “Emergency services were called to the park after recovering a call that Carson Price, a 13-year-old boy, had collapsed.

“His friends told paramedics he had taken ecstasy and was rushed to hospital but tragically he died.

“Inquiries followed one friend said he had seen Carson contacted a male on Snapchat and made arrangements to meet him to buy three pills.

“He told him to meet him outside a garage and 10 minutes later he returned with the tablets.

“They went to the park and Carson offered one tablet to a friend but he declined.

“Carson initially took one-and-a-half tablets and later the other one-and-a-half. He began acting strangely and fell about before he collapsed.”

The court heard the 15-year-old schoolboy was arrested days after Carson’s death and when interviewed he told police he’d been threatened by an adult male to sell the drugs.

But Miss Cunningham said text messages showed the boy had continued to try and secure more drugs for sale – even after Carson had died.

The boy, now 15, spoke only once – in a quiet and shy voice – as he answered his name and pleaded guilty to selling class A drugs.

Judge Martin Brown said the fact the boy was still selling the killer drugs after Carson had died was “chilling”.

He said: “It is simply chilling that after the death of Carson he was still looking to secure tablets for sale.”

The judge adjourned the case for sentence as he asked for a report into the boy as he had been arrested since for carrying a knife.

He said: “You know the publicity this case has attracted.

“I want to know more about you – I want to know more about the offence itself and your reaction to this.

“Fifteen months ago this occurred – this is not something the family of the deceased will recover from easily if at all. I want to know if you have learned from this.”

Miss Cunningham said Carson had told friends he had bought drugs from the boy once before but the boy denied this.

Sentence was adjourned until August 18.

Carson’s mother Tatum Price, 39, appealed for other youngsters to reject the drugs – which are being sold for as little as £2-a-pill.

In a statement his mother and father Brian told how “our lives changed forever when our little boy was taken away from us.”

The pair said: “Thinking of another family going through what we have is unbearable.

“We urge people to talk about the devastating consequences that drugs can have and how they destroy lives.

”Carson was bright and caring, kind and loving. He was a cheeky little boy.”