Drowned student was drunk

THE 20 years old student who drowned in the Ouse at York was discovered to have three times over the drink-drive limit of alcohol an inquest heard.

Megan Roberts, who was a student at York St John University had spent the evening playing drinking games with friends, but then walked home by the Ouse and stumbled into the water and drowned.

Five weeks later

Though the police and divers searched the river and its banks they could find no trace of Megan, and it was a man who eventually spotted her body some five weeks later near the bank of the river.

An open verdict was recorded at the inquest into Megan's death, after learning there was no evidence to determine how she ended up in the river, though a Home Office Pathologist told the court the cause of death was drowning, with a contributing factor being the effects of alcohol.

Over three times legal limit

Blood tests had revealed she had 273 milligrammes of alcohol in her body, that was three and a half times the legal limit for driving.

Witnesses at the inquest told they had never seen Megan so drunk and had begged her to go home. It was heard that she had drunk four pints of cider and blackcurrant in the students' union bar at the start of the evening, then taken a taxi to a nearby pub where she was seen downing Jagerbombs and cocktails. Then she and friends visited a nightclub where Megan continued to drink spirits.