North teenager drowned under police car had sniffed gas, inquest told

A Belfast teenager who drowned under the wheels of a police vehicle in a Co Antrim river after a car chase was nearly twice over the drink-drive limit and had been sniffing butane gas, an inquest was told today.

Raymond Robinson, 19, died in Threemilewater at a place known as The Glen outside Whiteabbey at 1.30am on a Saturday morning in late April 2004.