Friday, 4 February 2022

Not The Sort Of Cocktail I Aspired To At 19...

Remember this, back in May last year?
A teenager whose death sparked a riot in Swansea collapsed after an 'unintentional drug overdose', a coroner has found.

Gosh, what are the odds? 

Coroner Colin Phillips told an inquest into the youngster's death in Swansea Guildhall on Monday how Mr Powell's family had now lost 'two generations to drugs'. His mother Charmaine having died of a drugs overdose in 2017.

Oh. OK, Pretty good, it seems. So, what are we talking about here, one or two paracetemol over the safe limit? 

During a post-mortem examination, a toxicology report found Mr Powell had traces of cocaine and methadone in his blood. Synthetic cannabinoids, commonly referred to as 'spice', were also present in his system and therapeutic levels of codeine.

*boggle* 

Referring to the riot, Mr Phillips said: 'The family would like to reiterate that as a family they did not agree with it and in no way did they instigate the riot.
'It was extremely distressing from their point of view to see what happened and they are concerned about the publicity the inquest will generate.'

You'd think they'd be used to it... 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wrong colour for a riot surely?
WLM now is it ?
Jaded

JuliaM said...

No, not in Wales. Even the sheep are white (mostly)!