Oxford student died in fall after taking ketamine

An Oxford student plunged to his death while high on drugs after going for an “adventure” climbing on a building site, an inquest heard.

Max Mian, 19, had taken ketamine before scaling the Westgate Shopping Centre in the centre of Oxford on October 2 last year. A coroner ruled that his death was an accident.

The second year undergraduate at Brasenose College had previously told a friend how one day he wanted to explore the building site and had left his flat around 3.30am. He was found early the next morning, lying on the floor outside a John Lewis store by a construction worker.