Royals’ gay sex blackmailer in suicide by drugs cocktail
A PLAYBOY who tried to blackmail the royal family over a gay sex claim killed himself by taking a lethal cocktail of drugs, an inquest heard.
Cocaine, prescription drugs and booze abuser Ian Strachan, 40, was found on Christmas Eve at home in Marylebone, Central London.
He claimed to be friends with Princes Harry and William but was jailed for five years in 2008 over the £50,000 blackmail plot against a royal. Strachan was found collapsed after taking cocaine and prescription drugs including codeine mixed with milk. He had earlier sent texts to his mum, Elizabeth Stratton, saying: “You want a body, you have got one.” At Westminster coroner’s court, coroner Dr Shirley Radcliffe said: “There clearly is evidence of threats to take his life. My conclusion will be that he killed himself.”