A TEENAGE girl ended up in hospital after a mature student gave her tablets he had bought on the internet, York Crown Court heard.

The drug that Jordan Watson, 27, gave to the girl had “never been submitted to a clinical trial or registered for therapeutic use,” said Tom Jackson, prosecuting.

Watson claimed to the girl that they could help her with her mental health problems.

When she said later the same day she had a “funny feeling” he gave her some more.

Just after midnight, she told her mother what had happened and was rushed to hospital by ambulance.

She was slurring her words and had a raised pulse and heartbeat.

She spent 10 hours at hospital before being allowed home.

When police arrested Watson he had 438 of the tablets on him.

For Watson, Anna Bond said he had sought medicine on the internet for his own longstanding health problems including attention deficit hyperactive disorder because he was not happy with the medicine his doctor had prescribed for him.

He had believed the drug he had given the Scarborough girl was diazepam and he was very remorseful for his actions.

He had apologised to the girl’s mother.

Judge Simon Hickey told Watson he had acted out of naivety rather than malice.

But he had betrayed the trust of the girl’s mother when she had left them alone in her house while she was at work.

Watson, who moved from North Yorkshire to Dartmouth Close, Brighton, pleaded guilty to supplying the girl with Flubromazolom and possessing Flubromazolom.

It is illegal in the UK where it is listed as Class C under the Misuse of Drugs Act.

He was given a four-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months.

Miss Bond said his prescription had been changed shortly before he gave the girl the drug and he was still adjusting to it.

Since then, he had turned his life around.

He had moved to Brighton where he had studied computer science and this September, he had a place to study film making at his local university.

He had sought help for his drug and alcohol abuse through a rehabilitation agency.