A RETIRED roofer died at his home in Bletchingdon after taking painkillers and alcohol.

Barry Timms, 59, was found on the sofa at his home in St Giles by his son on Sunday, July 27.

An inquest at Oxfordshire Coroner’s Court yesterday heard in a statement from his GP, Dr Duncan Becker, that he had a history of alcohol dependency.

Pathologist Lucie Winter, from the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, said traces of codeine, paracetamol and alcohol in his blood were not high enough to have poisoned him and concluded he had died after choking on his vomit.

Assistant coroner Nicholas Graham recorded a verdict of drug and alcohol-related death.

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