Teenage girl dies suddenly after falling ill at Reading Festival Esme's father, Sebastian Blore-Rimmer, was driving home to get some clothes so he could stay with her overnight when medical staff called him to say he should turn around and come back to the hospital because she was deteriorating so rapidly. Within three hours she had died. Mr Blore-Rimmer, 48, said: "At the moment we are in limbo. We don't really know what to do until we find out how and why she died. We just want to know the facts and at the moment we don't know anything. Waiting around is just unbearable. His wife Sharon, 44, was too upset to speak about her loss, saying: "I could give all the tributes in the world but nothing is going to bring my baby back." Friends left heartfelt tributes to Esme, a former pupil at private Bedford High School for Girls, on a Facebook page set up in her memory. One wrote: "Words can't even describe how much I am going to miss you. I feel sick thinking that you're not here anymore, it doesn't feel real. Esme's parents said some tests for drugs had already come back negative and her friends had told them she had only one drink on Friday. Her death is not thought to be suspicious, but police have not ruled anything out until a post-mortem examination is carried out later this week. A Northamptonshire Police spokesman said: "The investigation into the cause of her death is ongoing and as such we are unable to comment any further. Our thoughts are with her friends and family at this sad time. The event's organisers said they had been notified about the "very sad" death and their thoughts and sympathies were with the teenager's family and friends. The three-day Reading and Leeds Festivals, which ended on Sunday, were attended by about 170,000 people and featured performances from American rapper Eminem and rock band Green Day. A popular teenage guitarist who was about to go to Manchester University died after collapsing at the Leeds event on Sunday. James Houghton, 19, from Hartlepool, had attended the event with friends. West Yorkshire Police are investigating the unexplained death, which is not being treated as suspicious. Melvin Benn, organiser of the Reading and Leeds Festivals, said on Sunday that his staff tried to stop the sale of both illegal drugs and legal highs on the sites of the events. He said: "A festival ought not to be judged on whether or not [drugs] are around because the truth is they're around in our society generally. The only thing we can do is say we're not allowing anyone to sell them and we police that, with a small p, very vigorously.