Mother’s warning after daughter died aged 19 ‘from eating too much chewing gum’

A heartbroken mother has issued a warning 10 years after her teenage daughter died ‘from eating too much chewing gum’.

‘Bubbly’ teen Samantha Jenkins, 19, from Felinfoel, south Wales died suddenly in June 2011 after complaining about an upset stomach which she blamed on a bottle of fizzy drink.

She collapsed and was put into an induced coma and later passed away, with doctors believing she had been poisoned.

However, an autopsy revealed ‘four or five bright green lumps’ of chewing gum in her stomach and a coroner ruled that it could have played a part in Samantha’s premature death. 

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