Care worker overdoses on Jagerbombs and nausea tablets
A British care worker accidentally killed herself by overdosing on sickness tablets after drinking fruit liqueurs and Jagerbombs on a date, according to reports.
Joanne Dowsett, 20, had been drinking for hours when she returned to her parents' home in Stockport last October, the Daily Mail reported.
Miss Dowsett downed ten shots of Sourz and rum and Cokes and then took anti-nausea pills at around 3am, which caused her to collapse and suffer a seizure.
She was found dead 4pm the next day after her parents accused her of taking drugs, an inquest into her death was told.
Miss Dowsett visited several bars on a date with Joshua Beaumont.
They drank Jagerbombs, beer, rum and Coke and shots. Mr Beaumont then walked her home.
He told the inquest Miss Dowsett had been behaving normally when he left her at her parents’ house.
“Jo seemed to be fine, she wasn't slurring her words or falling,” he said.
“She asked me to walk her home and said she would phone me a cab from her house. We stood on the drive chatting together and we were discussing about going out again.”
“She didn’t seem to be particularly drunk,” he added.
Once he had left the 22-year-old continued chatting to her via text.
Miss Dowsett told him she was going to bed before phoning another friend, Samuel Higginbotham. She told him she had fought with her parents, who were worried she had taken drugs after seeing her behave erratically.
Detective Inspector Cheryl Hughes of Greater Manchester Police said there was no indication she planned to take her own life.
A toxicology report indicated she was just over the drink drive limit and had fatal amounts of cyclizine, a drug used to treat nausea and travel sickness, in her system.
Coroner John Pollard found she died of the cocktail of drugs and alcohol.
“She had taken alcohol for the buzz effect and one does hear of youngsters taking fairly prodigious amounts these days but I don’t think she did anything unusual in the amount she took while she was out.
Then you link that with the cyclizine. She has taken them to stop her feeling sick and an unintended outcome was they connected with the alcohol and have been more than her body can cope with.”
