Prisoner found dead in jail cell after downing cocktail of drugs

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Prisoner found dead in jail cell after downing cocktail of drugs
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Steven Gunn was 11 months into a jail sentence when his body was found.

Steven Gunn died less than a year after being jailed for breaking into an East Kilbride house where he was caught in the act by residents.

A code blue alarm was raised to alert staff, but medics found no sign of life when they arrived on the scene. It found they unprescribed drugs had a respiratory depressant effect on Mr Gunn’s breathing placing further strain on his already diseased heart. Sign up to Glasgow Live's newsletter Get all the latest Glasgow news and headlines sent straight to your inbox twice a day by signing up to our free newsletter.The morning newsletter arrives every day before 9am and the evening newsletter, manually curated by the team, is sent between 4pm and 5pm, giving you a round up of the most important stories we've covered that day.

"Mr Gunn had not consumed all of the unprescribed drugs available to him, in that the said alprazolam was discovered after his death in his cell. It is probable in considering the entirety of these circumstances that Mr Gunn had accidentally fatally overdosed in consuming the said unprescribed diazepam, phenazepam, alprazolam and mirtazapine."

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