Western Mail

Woman died after lethal drug cocktail

- ERYL CRUMP newsdesk@walesonlin­e.co.uk

AWOMAN died after taking a “large quantity” of drink and drugs including cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine and GHB.

Hollie Sheridan-Connis took the deadly cocktail of substances while celebratin­g the New Year at Glan y Gro Lakeside Suites near Bala, Gwynedd.

Paramedics pronounced Ms Sheridan-Connis dead in the early hours of January 1 2019.

An inquest at Caernarfon heard the 24-year-old, of Birkenhead, Wirral, had gone there with her boyfriend, Ryan Lee Weston.

Weston 32, of Oteley Avenue, Bromboroug­h was jailed in January for 21 months after he admitted supplying the drugs to Ms Sheridan-Connis.

North Wales senior coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones said the role her boyfriend played was not relevant to the inquest.

The coroner added: “They both took the drugs and unfortunat­ely Hollie died. The inquest is not concerned with what happened to him. The function of the hearing is to determine how the deceased died.”

Mr Jones said blood samples taken by a forensic pathologis­t during a postmortem examinatio­n found traces of cocaine, ecstasy, amphetamin­e and ketamine and their metabolyte­s.

The anti-depressant diazepam and the so-called date rape drug GHB was also found in her system.

Alcohol was also found at a level of 212 microgramm­es of alcohol to 100 millilitre­s of blood.

The coroner noted the drink drive limit is 80.

The pathologis­t recorded the cause of death was alcohol and multiple drug toxicity.

Concluding the 12-minute hearing the coroner said the alcohol had enhanced the effect of the drugs.

“The large quantity of drugs which caused her death. The formal verdict is that Hollie Sheridan-Connis died of the abuse of drugs,” said Mr Jones.

Ms Sheridan-Connis’ parents attended the hearing.

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