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AN ANGLESEY teenager died from a heroin overdose, an inquest ruled.
The inquest in Llangefni that Thomas William Stevens, 16, of 80 Pencraig in Llangefni, took more heroin before the effects of his previous intake has worn off.
North west Wales coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones heard Thomas’ friend Paul Llywelyn Jones, also a heroin user, discovered a month before the teenager’s death on October 31, 2004 that he had started taking the drug.
In a statement, he said: “I was very angry to hear this. I didn’t want him going down the same path as myself.”
However, he and Thomas later smoked £10 bags of heroin on three occasions.
On the day of his death, Mr Jones went to the home of Lee Jones at 64 Pencraig, and saw Thomas rolling up his sleeve as he sat on the sofa.
Mr Jones noticed that Thomas’ eyes were rolling, and believed that he had already injected, although he could not see a syringe.
Lee Jones and his brother Craig ran to Mr Jones’ house, saying that they thought Thomas was dead.
Mr Jones discovered the body at the house.
Toxicology results revealed a fatal level of morphine in Thomas’ blood.
Mr Pritchard Jones recorded the cause of death as asphyxiation due to the injecting of morphine.
The verdict was death was caused by drug abuse.
“All I can say it that this was a tragic death of a young person who was using heroin.
“He injected himself with a quantity that he couldn’t survive.”
“Unfortunately, it is an all too common picture, especially here on. Anglesey. I am getting more heroin and drug deaths than ever before,” he said.
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