Girl, 9, dialled 999 after finding her mum and dad dead from drugs overdose.

A paramedic has told of the heartbreaking moment a young girl dialled 999 after waking to find her parents dead from an accidental drugs overdose.

The devastated nine-year-old led the emergency worker to the bodies of John Worton, 37, and Suzanne Van Hagen, 34, after telling an operator ‘‘blood was coming out of her dad’s mouth’’.

The couple were discovered in separate rooms in the property in Frankley, Birmingham on February 8 last year.

An inquest heard fitness instructor Mr Worton died after taking party drug PMA, also known as Dr Death or Pink Ecstasy, which has been blamed on other deaths across the country.

An inquest into Ms Van Hagen’s death will take place at a later date, but a previous post mortem showed she had also died from an accidental overdose of the Class A amphetamine.

Ambulance technician Adrian McCorkell said he was sent to the property at 9.53am after the child’s distraught 999 call, the Birmingham Mail reports.

He said: “I was greeted by a young girl. She stated that she was upset, she stated that her dad would be very upset if she let me in.

“I pushed the door open and passed her and since I got into the property, I asked her to show me where her mother was and she pointed into the direction of the doorway.”

Mr McCorkell said he saw Ms Van Hagen in the bedroom.

He was then shown to the living room where he found stepdad Mr Worton’s body, which had been had been covered by a sheet.

He said: “I tried to get the girl to sit outside. She was reluctant to leave the property.”

Police officers arrived and took care of the youngster before declaring the one-bedroomed maisonette a major crime scene.

Mr Worton was pronounced dead at 10.10am by Mr McCorkell.

Pathologist Alexander Kolar said post mortem results showed a potentially lethal level of drugs in Mr Worton’s system.

As well as PMA (Paramethoxyamphetamine), he had also taken BZP, a recreational stimulant.

Mr Kolar said: “There was also evidence of alcohol and drugs of a therapeutic level.”

Coroner Louise Hunt recorded Mr Worton’s cause of death as “mixed drug toxicity”, principally PMA and Benzylpiperazine.

Nearly 20 people have died after taking PMA, which can cost as little as £3 per pill.

They include friends Chris Goodwin, 30, and Emma Johnson, 21, from Bolton, who took up to five times the lethal dose of the amphetamine at a party in 2012.

Ms Van Hagen, who is thought to have worked as a nurse, was a former pupil at Birmingham’s top Catholic girls’ school, St Paul’s, in Edgbaston.