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Jake Harris, 21, had been ­clubbing and went back to a pal’s flat, where he continued to party until 10am.

The dad-to-be then took strips of what he believed to be LSD but was ­actually the then-legal substance 251-NBOME.

Hours after taking the drug Jake told his friends: “I want it to stop.”

Moments later he threw himself against the full-length apartment window, broke a wine glass against a bedside cabinet and stabbed himself several times in the neck with it.

Paramedics and police were called to the luxury block near Manchester city centre but Jake’s heart stopped on the way to hospital.

He was put on life support but doctors warned his ­family nothing could be done and the machine was switched off the following day on May 28.

N-Bomb, which causes powerful hallucinations, paranoia and confusion, was made ­illegal just two weeks later.

An inquest heard how the leisure centre worker, from Rochdale, had been told an ex-girlfriend was pregnant with his child.

His friend Steven Higgins, 27, a club DJ who gave Jake the drug and took some himself, said: “We could see in the back of his mind something was bothering him.”

Steven was arrested after the tragedy but was not charged because N-Bomb was legal at the time.

Jake’s mother Jane told the Bolton inquest: “He had the ability to light up a room. There is a big gaping hole in our hearts.”

Jane said her son began taking recreational drugs two years ago and he once smashed up her house in a drug-induced rage.

Three months before his death he was taken to hospital after his throat swelled in a drug reaction.

The inquest was adjourned for a pathologist’s evidence.