The student believed to be the first Briton to catch coronavirus was killed by a cocktail of illegal drugs including ecstasy and cannabis after 'never getting over lockdown in China', a coroner said today.
Connor Reed, 26, from Llandudno, North Wales, caught the virus while teaching English at a school in Wuhan in November 2019, and claimed he drank hot toddies to help him beat the illness.
After being found dead in his room at Bangor University in October, where he moved to study Chinese and linguistics, his heartbroken mother revealed he never got over the 'hardship' of contracting the virus after he was forced to spend over 20 weeks in a 'harsh' Chinese shutdown.
At an inquest in Caernarfon, coroner Kate Sutherland said Mr Reed was a user of illegal drugs and had taken fentanyl, ecstasy and cannabis and recorded his death as drug-related. He had suffered respiratory failure due to combined drug toxicity, the hearing was told.
On October 23 he and a flatmate had shared a bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey and smoked cannabis. Mr Reed said he had taken two ecstasy tablets and used the dark web for drugs previously, the inquest heard.
Connor Reed, 26, from Llandudno, North Wales, caught the virus while teaching English at a school in Wuhan in November 2019, and claimed he drank hot toddies to help him beat the illness
Mr Reed pictured with his mother Hayley. His heartbroken mother revealed that Connor never got over the 'hardship' of contracting coronavirus after he was forced to spend over 20 weeks in a 'harsh' lockdown in China
Although cases are still rising, the speed at which they are increasing has slowed in recent days
Ms Sutherland said: 'I appreciate for members of Connor's family there may well be a number of unanswered questions. But I'm afraid any inquest can't answer all questions. The loss of any family member is extremely traumatic.
'I would like to pass on my sincere
