Student died after up to 27 vodka shots
THE initiation ceremony after which a student died included up to 27 vodka shots and being painted like cattle, an inquest heard yesterday.
Ed Farmer, 20, was one of 20 Newcastle University first years at the Agricultural Society night out in December 2016.
Starting the pub crawl at 7.15pm, they were urged to down about nine vodka trebles by second and third years in little over an hour.
At another bar they were given more vodka trebles before they went to a student house in Jesmond, Newcastle, where they were spray painted and their heads were shaved.
Ed later passed out at the house and died two days later of the symptoms of acute alcohol toxicity.
The inquest continues.