Orlando Nyero, 19, drowned in a canal in Manchester's city centre after going on a drunken 3am stroll
A first-year university student who'd never tried alcohol before he left home drowned in a canal after he went on a drunken 3am stroll, an inquest heard.
Heavily-intoxicated Orlando Nyero, 19, had been chucked out of a Manchester nightclub for being sick in the toilets in June last.
He was taken to a Jury's Inn hotel by his concerned best friend - but the Ugandan-born teen, from Bolton, mysteriously went out again for a walk around canal locks in the city centre.
It is believed the forensic science student then accidentally slipped and fell into a stretch of the water which was unprotected by barriers at Lock 90 of the Rochdale Canal.
His body was recovered two days later with tests showing he had 195 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood in his system. The blood alcohol limit for driving is 80mg.
The Wolverhampton University student was the 87th person whose body had been found in Greater Manchester's canals since 2007. Another student was found drowned in the same stretch of water three months earlier.
An inquest heard the tragedy occurred on June 3 last year after Orlando had been out with his brother and a number of friends at an Italian restaurant during a trip home.
The group went to Viva nightclub near the Deansgate Locks complex but Orlando became so intoxicated he was asked to leave.
Best friend Emmanuel Yoak, 25, said he took Orlando back to the Jurys inn hotel where a room had been booked for the night.
It's thought the forensic science student accidentally slipped and fell into a stretch of the water which was unprotected by barriers at Lock 90 (shown)
He told the Manchester hearing: 'We got to the hotel around 3am and I took Orlando to the room and tried to get him to go to sleep - but he didn't want to go to sleep.
'When I came back downstairs, he followed me. Whilst I was talking to the security guards, he vanished.
'My plan had been to hand in the key and go back to where my brother was. We go downstairs together all I saw was someone running downstairs I didn't know where he went. He was talking slow and his walking was not steady.'
CCTV of Orlando's movements in the run up to his death showed him swaying from side to side.
Police coroners officer Marie
