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^^ Being a coronial investigation I imagine they'd be very thorough, they will need to determine an exact cause of death.
The AgeCousins talks about night Mainwaring died
Ben Doherty
October 4, 2007
EAGLES footballer Ben Cousins has been interviewed by West Australian police about the night his mentor and friend Chris Mainwaring died.
While police would not confirm they had spoken to Cousins yesterday, Channel Seven reported that detectives from the major crime squad interviewed him at his home for two hours.
Police also talked to Mainwaring's friend and former Eagle, Adrian Barich, about conversations and text messages he exchanged with his former team-mate in the days before his death.
Mainwaring, 41, a Channel Seven commentator and former dual premiership player with West Coast, died of a suspected heart attack early on Monday. He told ambulance officers about an hour before he died he had taken ecstasy and cannabis, but refused help when they came to his Cottesloe house. An hour later they returned to find him unconscious and suffering seizures.
Cousins visited Mainwaring twice on Sunday.
He left his house about 10pm, 90 minutes before ambulance officers were first called. Cousins, who battled his own drug addiction this year, was drug-tested on Monday and returned a clean sample.
The results of a post-mortem on Mainwaring have not been made public, ahead of an expected coronial inquest.