Man died in hot tub while on trip with friends

A 21-YEAR-OLD man died in a hot tub at a glamping site.

Jai Williams, from Caerphilly, had taken a cocktail of drugs before friends found him drowned in the tub, an inquest into his death heard yesterday.

Coroner’s officer James Lang told the hearing how from the age of 14 Mr Williams had regularly taken drugs.

“Drugs were a big part of his life and he had some mental health issues,” Mr Lang explained.

Mr Williams briefly spent time on the streets following his release from prison last year before he was put up in councilprovided accommodation in New Tredegar in the summer of 2021.

On January 23, during a holiday with his friends at Florence Springs Glamping and Camping in Tenby, paramedics were called to the site to reports of him drowning in a hot tub.

Paramedics pronounced Mr Williams as deceased at the scene shortly after midnight. A postmortem examination carried out by Dr Maurizio Brotto advised Mr Williams’ medical cause of death as poisoning and a combination of cocaine and fluvoxamine toxicity.

Assistant Coroner for Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire Gareth Lewis issued a formal conclusion of a drug-related death.