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THE night before she died, Jodie Muir promised her mum she would be safe at a house party.

Laura McArthur didn’t want her daughter to go to her friend’s and only gave in after Jodie, 16, assured her she wouldn’t do anything stupid.

The next morning, Jodie was found dead in her bed at her father’s house – and that night, a police statement said she might have taken drugs.

Head chef Laura, 40, broke down yesterday as she told the Record: “Jodie had done really well in her exams. She wanted to be a forensic scientist.

“I will never see my daughter going to university.

“I’ll never see my daughter getting married. I’ll never see her having kids of her own. It feels like a nightmare that I am never going to wake up from.”

Before letting her go to the party in Cathkin, Glasgow, Laura texted her: “Promise me Jodie there will be no drink and no drugs.”

Jodie replied: “Mum, I don’t drink and I don’t take drugs.”

Laura had no reason to doubt her and they kept in touch throughout the night.

The last text, at 5.07am on Saturday, confirmed Jodie was at her dad Peter’s home in the Gorbals.

Laura asked why she was there and Jodie replied: “I wasn’t feeling too well. I had a sore stomach.”

Six hours later, the schoolgirl – who had a rare heart condition – was found dead .

And her devastated family were dealt a fresh blow that night when a Police Scotland press release saying a 16-year-old girl had died after a party added: “ It has been suggested that she may have taken some form of ecstasy-type drug.”

The family were not told of the development until after the media had been informed – and the drugs claim only compounded their agony.

Laura said: “My daughter did not take drugs. We all know she didn’t take drugs.

“She didn’t like drink and would laugh at the ones who drank.

“The police warning has spiralled out of control. It has tortured us.

“I have to defend my daughter’s name when I should be grieving.

“The police have turned a horrible, tragic time into a circus.”

Jodie suffered from the same illness, Long QT syndrome, that killed her eight-year-old cousin in 2001. It can cause the heart to develop an abnormal beat and even stop completely.

Jodie’s mum and sister Taylor, 11, also have the genetic disorder.

Laura said: “We have a long history of sudden deaths in our family.

“Nobody took that into consideration when they labelled my daughter a drug-taker.”

Jodie only started fifth year at Eastbank Academy in Glasgow last Wednesday.

Since the weekend, the school gates have become a shrine to the popular teenager .

Her friends have also swamped Facebook with tributes and hit back at trolls who posted sick comments online.

One pal has even had a tattoo in her memory, quoting the caption Jodie used for a recent selfie: “No point in crying so may as well smile.”

Laura said: “Jodie was a beautiful personality and she brought joy to everyone she was around.

“Her favourite thing was clothes. Her school bag is still sitting in the hall. She loved Armani stuff.

“She had a thing about selfies and pouting – about 700 times a day. She was a model pupil at school and a stunning-looking wee lassie. She had everything to live for. Everything.

“Do you know how bad it is walking into her room and she is not there?”

A post-mortem proved inconclusive and it will be weeks before the results of toxicology tests are known but Jodie’s body has been released to the family.

The death certificate says she died from “inconclusive heart failure”.

As we spoke in their living room yesterday, Laura asked her younger daughter how she would describe her big sister.

Taylor, who is helping to plan the funeral, ran upstairs and returned with a card which she read aloud.

It said: “Smart, funny, gorgeous, creative, active and sweet.”

Laura added: “We might never see her face again but she will never be without us and we we will never be without her. She just brought so much happiness to us.

“Her life has been tragically cut short due to illness.

“I will never understand it and I don’t think anyone will understand it.

“I am just so happy that she was in my life for so long.

“I take comfort from the fact that not one person can say a bad word about Jodie.”