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Death blamed on cocktail of drink and drugs
A CABLE puller was found dead in a caravan on an allotment site after consuming a cocktail of drugs and alcohol.
Michael I'Anson had taken temazepam tablets and five measures of spirits, or the equivalent of three pints of beer, before he was found by friends at a caravan at the Brierton allotments, in Hartlepool, an inquest heard.
Mr I'Anson, 29, of was found by friends Anthony Mager and Lee McLoughlin "lying on his back on the bed with both arms bent behind his head, looking chilled out".
Hartlepool coroner Malcolm Donnelly said consultant pathologist Dr Jan Lowe confirmed no signs of violence were found. But he added that there were no natural diseases that would "cause Michael's death or accelerate it".
He added that Dr Lowe said the "combination of alcohol and temazepam can produce severe respiratory depression", meaning Mr I'Anson's ability to breathe would have been suppressed.
Mr Donnelly said he was sure Mr I'Anson had no suicidal intentions due to the way in which he was found on May 10.
Mr Donnelly offered Mr I'Anson's family his sympathy and recorded a verdict of non-dependent abuse of alcohol and temazepam.
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