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Killed by a Nytol overdose
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Saturday Metro
A jet-lagged engineer died in a hotel room after overdosing on sleeping pills, an inquest heard on Wednesday.
Police initially thought Dean Dagnan, 41, had been murdered because his head and body were covered in cuts and bruises.
But a pathologist found the father of three had taken four times the recommended dose of the sleeping aid Nytol, which caused him to thrash around the room.
Mr Dagan called his wife at home in Great Casterton, Lincolnshire, complaining of insomnia the night before he died.
He had been working in China for three weeks and returned on September 23 to stay at a hotel in Paddington, West London.
'The following morning hotel staff found entry to the room difficult,' said coroner's officer Terry Lovegrove.
'There was a body on the floor behind the door.' Paramedics tried to resuscitate Mr Dagan but he was already dead, Westminster coroner's court heard.
Police found several empty packets of Nytol – an over-the-counter antihistamine – but also saw a broken electric fan, injuries on Mr Dagnan's body and blood on the wall.
Foul play was ruled out after an autopsy revealed he had died from the overdose, a blocked airway and choking on his own vomit.
Recording a verdict of death by misadventure, coroner Dr Paul Knapman said: 'I don't think it's a deliberate overdose – I just think it's a mistake. He was probably exhausted.'
SOURCE: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=27219&in_page_id=34
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Saturday Metro
A jet-lagged engineer died in a hotel room after overdosing on sleeping pills, an inquest heard on Wednesday.
Police initially thought Dean Dagnan, 41, had been murdered because his head and body were covered in cuts and bruises.
But a pathologist found the father of three had taken four times the recommended dose of the sleeping aid Nytol, which caused him to thrash around the room.
Mr Dagan called his wife at home in Great Casterton, Lincolnshire, complaining of insomnia the night before he died.
He had been working in China for three weeks and returned on September 23 to stay at a hotel in Paddington, West London.
'The following morning hotel staff found entry to the room difficult,' said coroner's officer Terry Lovegrove.
'There was a body on the floor behind the door.' Paramedics tried to resuscitate Mr Dagan but he was already dead, Westminster coroner's court heard.
Police found several empty packets of Nytol – an over-the-counter antihistamine – but also saw a broken electric fan, injuries on Mr Dagnan's body and blood on the wall.
Foul play was ruled out after an autopsy revealed he had died from the overdose, a blocked airway and choking on his own vomit.
Recording a verdict of death by misadventure, coroner Dr Paul Knapman said: 'I don't think it's a deliberate overdose – I just think it's a mistake. He was probably exhausted.'
SOURCE: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=27219&in_page_id=34
