Tivyside | Archive | 2004 | September | 15
From the Tivyside Advertiser, first published Wednesday 15th Sep 2004.
A 44-year-old Cardigan woman went into fits and died after she and her partner went on a drinking binge which saw them go through betwween 17 and 25 bottles of vodka in a fortnight.
Nancy Patricia Gonzales, of Priory Court, was talking to ambulancemen when they arrived to take her to hospital, but she went into cardiac arrest in the ambulance.
An investigation which involved the police, the Crown Prosecution Service and a Home Office Pathologist finally came to an end when Carmarthenshire Coroner John Owen recorded a verdict of death by natural causes at an inquest in Llanelli. Pathologists reported that though she had not died from alcoholic poisoning her death was due to chronic alcoholism, with the obvious effects of binge drinking, some of which are still not understood.
The coroner launched the investigation after her mother asked investigators if an earlier intervention might have saved her, but Cardiff-based Home Office pathologist Dr Andrew Dawson told him that the only action that would definitely have changed events would have been to not start on the drinking binge in the first place
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