THE death of an 18-year-old woman who was taken ill at a Kent nightclub last weekend is not being treated as suspicious.

This was revealed by Kent Police following a post mortem on Josephine Harris, of Shakespeare Terrace, Folkestone, who was in the first year of a motor-vehicle course at South Kent College's Dover campus.

She died at Maidstone Hospital after collapsing at the ikon nightclub in the county town at about 1.40am on Saturday. She was there with friends.

Police have not revealed a specific cause of death at the moment but they are satisfied that there are no suspicious circumstances.

Staff at the college Miss Harris attended have paid tribute to her, describing the teenager as lovely and a real go-getter.

Anna Hornsey, who acts as a mentor for the six girls who study mechanics at the college, said: “I always used to say to her, when you’ve got your all-girls garage, I’ll be coming to you."

Mark Hadfield, deputy head of school for ICT and engineering, who has known Miss Harris’s family for many years, said it had been a devastating time.

He added: “Jo was the only girl in her class and tended to boss the boys around which was good for them. She was a leader and a really nice, down-to-earth girl. She will be sadly missed.”

Her boyfriend, banger racer and mechanics student Ryan Fisher, was said by friends to be heartbroken.