Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A university student died of alcohol poisoning after a rugby club initiation game, an inquest heard.
Sam Potter, 19, was found dead the morning after a four-hour drinking session at the University of Gloucestershire in May 2019.
The second-year student had been taking part in an end-of-season initiation game inside a garden shed with rugby teammates, which involved consuming various alcoholic drinks and food sauces, an inquest into his death at Gloucestershire Coroner’s Court heard on Tuesday (April 20).
Toxicology tests found Mr Potter, from Hersham, Surrey had drunk a fatal level of alcohol and was the equivalent of more than four-and-a-half times
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