Coroner’s cocaine warning after labourer’s death

THE high risk of taking cocaine, especially when mixed with alcohol, was highlighted by coroner Terence Casey at an inquest in Killarney yesterday.

A seven-man jury returned a verdict of death by misadventure in the case of David Culloty, a 20-year-old labourer from Alderwood Road, Tralee, whose body was found in a Killarney hotel bedroom.

According to a postmortem examination, the cause of death was ingestion of cocaine associated with ingestion of alcohol, on