The 24-year-old's father described the treatment as “abysmal”
Diane Meldrum sat and hugged William Meldrum, a 24-year-oldworker, after finding him on the sofa with his computer keyboard on his lap and still wearing his glasses.
It was only after the attending police officer rang the ambulance service and “became aggressive” after several hours, that a paramedic finally arrived at the property on Princes Gate in Horbury, Wakefield. A statement from his father, Daniel Meldrum, was read out to Wakefield Coroner’s Court today which he described the treatment as “abysmal”.Kevin McLoughlin
, the hearing was told that William had developed an addiction to the sedative drug, diazepam, to cope with his spiralling depression and anxiety. The IT service officer would buy the drug over the internet but was frustrated at being unable to get the help from the NHS and local drug-counselling services.Saying he “helped everybody else but himself”, his mother told the coroner that William accidentally overdosed twice.
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