A UN war crimes tribunal official said today that the court was informed on several occasions that Slobodan Milosevic had regular access to unprescribed medication and alcohol smuggled into his prison cell in The Hague.

Slobodan Milosevic’s body was being released to his family today after an eight-hour autopsy revealed that the former Yugoslav president died of a heart attack in his prison cell.

Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack in his jail cell, according to preliminary post mortem findings tonight.