Friday, October 13, 2023

Gas and Solvent Use headlines July to September 2023

 UK

Halliwell: Man died after 'excess use' of laughing gas A man discovered dead in a car in Halliwell died after 'excess nitrous oxide use', an inquest has heard.

Fatal crash group were drinking and inhaling nitrous oxide, friend tells police  Driver Rafel Jeanne, 24, and passengers Darcy Ross, 21, and Eve Smith, 21, died in the crash, while the two remaining passengers, Sophie Russon, 20, and Shane Loughlin, 32, were injured but survived.

Disqualified driver jailed for killing two pedestrians on pavement  Jason Campbell, who had been inhaling nitrous oxide, ploughed into pedestrians John Manning and Mark Varney in Bedford on 31 October 2020.

Serial Leeds deodorant thief jailed and banned from city centre  A shoplifter known to retailers as "the Lynx thief" due to his numerous thefts of aerosol deodorants has been banned from Leeds city centre for five years

Norwich City footballer, 20, jailed over horror car crash which injured three people after inhaling hippy crack Flynn Clarke's BMW swerved into the opposite carriageway in April last year and crashed into a motorhome, leaving a passenger fearing he'd never walk again.

Ireland

Tributes paid to teenager who died 'after doing TikTok aerosol challenge' The teenager, from Co. Clare, has been named locally as Sarah Mescall, from Kilnamona, and died on Monday night after she was placed in an induced coma.

New Zealand

Carpet layer Ryan Mead died after accidentally inhaling toxic solvent during job The death of a carpet layer who was overcome by fumes during a job and died the next day in hospital was caused by exposure to a toxic solvent.

Australia

Death of Indigenous mental health patient in Darwin hospital due to ‘litany of failures’, inquest told Ngalarina, a sistergirl also known as Xysc after changing their name in 2017, was an involuntary mental health patient at the hospital in 2022 when they died alone in a bathroom from volatile substance abuse.

USA

‘He wasn’t Tommy’: Family shares story of inhalant death  On Halloween last year, Byers failed to show up for work. His father found his son’s lifeless body in the bathroom of his Golden Valley apartment.