Parents issue devastating warning after beloved Manchester coffee shop owner, 38, dies
manchestereveningnews.co.ukJamie Boland’s parents proudly watched their son grow from a happy, sports-loving boy to a successful and popular Manchester coffee shop owner.
But, in the last few years of his life, they felt helpless as they saw his joy stripped away, replaced by pain, as he lost weight and began to look like a ‘prisoner in his own body’.
Jamie had become addicted to ketamine after starting to use it early in 2021. His chronic use of the Class B drug transformed his life from the out-going, pioneering owner of Ancoats Coffee Co to a virtual recluse, in constant agony because of the havoc it had wreaked on his bladder and kidneys.
Jamie died aged 38 in June last year of sepsis caused by a kidney infection, which was a complication of long-term use of ketamine.
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