Age: 23
Sex: male
Date: 7 Oct 2017
Place: Queens Drive, Leek, Staffordshire
James Powner died at a flat in Queens Drive, Leek.
A man was initially arrested on suspicion of murder after the police were told that he had been assaulted, but his post mortem was inconclusive and failed to find any evidence of trauma or assault. Further, it was determined that he had a wide range of drugs in his system that were more than enough to have caused his death, including alcohol, heroin, cocaine diazepam, temazepam and anti-depressant medication and his inquest concluded that his death was drug-related and that he had suffered a cardiac arrest. His blood alcohol level was 184 milligrams where 80 milligrams is the drink drive limit.
