Rubber fetishist had taken legal high, inquest told

A KINKY salesman collapsed and died after chatting on the internet while dressed in a rubber suit, gas mask and WELLIES.

Paul Iles, 31, liked to wear his favourite fetish outfit to chat with other men on webcams, an inquest heard.

But the telephone salesman collapsed in his kitchen after removing the rubber gear and was found naked the next morning by his gay partner Ian Newman.

Police investigated and traced other men who had chatted with Paul on the Cam4 website on the night of his death.

Mask

They confirmed he was wearing his rubber suit and a gas mask while he typed messages on the keyboard.

A post mortem examination revealed Paul also had the designer drug Bath Salts in his blood stream.

The inquest in Cardiff heard the drug, also known as Sextacy, is used as a sexual stimulant and was recently made illegal in Britain.

Mr Newman, his partner of four years, said: “Paul had recently been experimenting with legal highs.

“He also sometimes took poppers through his gas mask or just sniffed it from the bottle.”

The inquest heard Paul, of Cardiff Bay, died of a sudden unexplained death after taking methylenedioxypyrovalerone – the chemical name for bath salts.

Drug

Cardiff coroner Mary Hassell recorded an open verdict saying: “The drug is new and medical knowledge is very limited.

“It could have caused his death, it could have had nothing to do with it, or it could have been a factor.

“But there is not enough evidence to say why Paul died.”