Newcastle University student Jeni Larmour found dead
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Jeni Larmour was deputy head girl at The Royal School Armagh for the 19/20 school year
A Newcastle University student from County Armagh, who died on Saturday had "a great future ahead of her", her former school headmaster has said.
Jeni Larmour, 18, from Newtownhamilton, was deputy head girl at The Royal School Armagh.
She was one of four people to die in suspected drugs-related incidents in the north east of England over the weekend.
Graham Montgomery said she had been a "very vivid" pupil.
"The shock that the school community has felt is in proportion to the impact that Jeni had as a pupil when she was here," Mr Montgomery said.
"She was involved in so many different aspects of school life, so she was a very vivid member of the school community.
"She was involved in the combined cadet force, she was involved in the chamber choir, she had been involved in the school's signature charity project, the Asha Project which had gone to India last year, she was involved in the school council.
"So she cut across so many different areas of the school, so many different groups of pupils and, of course, a lot of staff have been really impacted."
Royal School Armagh headmaster Graham Montgomery said Ms Larmour was academically very able and also had a very bright personality
Ms Larmour was found dead shortly after 06:00 BST in student accommodation in Richardson Road in Newcastle.
An 18-year-old man arrested on suspicion of supplying a Class B drug has been released on police bail.
"Jeni was academically very able, but she also had that personality and that vivaciousness, that desire to engage which moves you from being a student to someone who's really employable, to be someone people want to work with and want to know," Mr Montgomery added.
"Jeni was the sort of person, we believed, who had a great future ahead of her"
The teenager had started studying architecture and urban planning at Newcastle University last month.
A spokesperson for Newcastle University said: "We are shocked and saddened to learn of the death of one of our students and our welfare teams are offering support to those affected."