Man spent inheritance on crack cocaine before death

A man spent €30,000 on crack cocaine in the weeks before his death after receiving an inheritance from his mother’s estate, an inquest heard yesterday.

Derek Olin, aged 40, was found dead at his basement flat on North Great Charles St in north inner city Dublin on Sep 29 last year. The father-of-five had taken a combination of cocaine, methadone, and sedatives in the hours before his death.

His brother Anthony Olin told the court that his brother had taken drugs for more than two decades, but in the last 10 years he had stabilised while on the methadone programme.