Man with severe heart disease died after taking cocaine, inquest hears
Norfolk Coroner's Court at Carrow House. Photo: Antony Kelly - Credit: Archant
A 40-year-old man with a severe heart disease died after taking cocaine, an inquest has heard.
Ross Baker, of Pochard St, Costessey, in Norwich, died on August 26 last year.
The inquest into his death at Norfolk Coroner's Court heard on Friday that Mr Baker and his wife had separated.
The night before his death two friends went to his house, where they drank beer and took cocaine, the inquest was told.
A friend said he thought Mr Baker was taking more cocaine than the others and tried to warn him he was doing too much but he just laughed it off.
You may also want to watch:
The inquest heard that Mr Baker had a severe coronary disease.
Area Coroner for Norfolk Yvonne Blake said that taking cocaine would have put 'extra strain on an already labouring heart'.
Most Read
- 1 Resurfacing works to see closures on three busy city roads
- 2 People in Norwich fined £21k for failing to pay for prescriptions
- 3 Power still out in parts of Norwich city centre six hours later
- 4 'Disaster from start to finish': Parents slam school for failing kids
- 5 £6.1m shopping street revamp will take half of 2022 to complete
- 6 Roadworks to be aware of in Norwich this week
- 7 New £64,000 bus lane could cut 80 seconds off journeys
- 8 See how Norwich Castle's keep is being transformed
- 9 Man, 83, 'absolutely gutted' after thieves pinch his £2,500 e-bike
- 10 Family piano shop founded in 1887 is leaving the city
She said that the drug may have contributed to his death.
The coroner expressed her condolences with Mr Baker's family.
