A RELATIVE of a Stourport man who died of a heroin overdose "knew something was wrong" when his half-brother did not return from the toilet on the night of his death.
The half-brother of Glynn Evans - who died on December 22 last year - told an inquest he thought it strange the 20-year-old had not said goodnight and broke into the bathroom to find him collapsed on the floor with an empty syringe in his hand.
In a statement read out by Worcestershire Coroner Victor Round at Stourport, Beau Broadhurst said: "I just thought he was going to the toilet and did not take any notice and it was only looking at the clock I realised he had been gone for 20 minutes.
"I thought it was strange he did not say goodnight."
Mr Evans had drunk a quantity of cider while watching television at the family home at The Slad in Stourport, said Mr Round, when he went to the bathroom.
Recording a verdict of death by non-dependent use of drugs, Mr Round added morphine was found in Mr Evans' blood and was "most likely to have metabolised from heroin".
Man, 20, found with syringe in his hand
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