Warning after teen dies from steroid use

A coroner has issued a stark warning about the dangers of anabolic steroids after hearing details of the tragic death of a fit and healthy sports-mad teenager.

Cork City coroner Philip Comyn returned a verdict of misadventure after an inquest was told how the muscle-building steroid, Stanozolol, contributed to the death of Luke O’Brien-May, aged 17, from Grange, Kilmallock, Co Limerick.

“He was a young man with the world ahead of him. It is a terrible tragedy,” Mr Comyn said.