A patient was found dead in a hospital's shower block two days after he was reported missing from his ward, an inquest has heard.
Rory McLeod, 52, was the subject of a police search before he was discovered inside a locked shower cubicle at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport.
On Thursday, an inquest found he died from the combination of a build-up of fat on his liver and a heroin overdose. He was tragically found lying on top of two used syringes.
Mr McLeod had been admitted to the hospital on March 31 after suffering seizures linked to alcohol misuse, and in the week before he went missing instructions were given to call the police if he attempted to leave the site.
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