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Warlock
- May 24, 2020
- 747
The deceased was a 49 year old man who collapsed at home, having taken a quantity of sodium
nitrite, and died shortly afterwards in Darlington Memorial Hospital on the 8th February 2020. He
had been deeply affected by the death of his son and more recently by the death of friends, all by
suicide. He had a history of attempts to harm himself often triggered by alcohol. He was getting
support from mental health services. Twelve days before he died, he purchased sodium nitrite (a
meat preservative) without difficulty on Ebay, having researched its use on a "suicide forum". Postmortem showed methaemoglobinaemia and toxicology showed an alcohol level of 178mg/100ml
and nitrite in the urine
nitrite, and died shortly afterwards in Darlington Memorial Hospital on the 8th February 2020. He
had been deeply affected by the death of his son and more recently by the death of friends, all by
suicide. He had a history of attempts to harm himself often triggered by alcohol. He was getting
support from mental health services. Twelve days before he died, he purchased sodium nitrite (a
meat preservative) without difficulty on Ebay, having researched its use on a "suicide forum". Postmortem showed methaemoglobinaemia and toxicology showed an alcohol level of 178mg/100ml
and nitrite in the urine