Drinker dies after downing pint of neat rum in front of his friends

A coroner has warned about the dangers of alcohol after a quantity surveyor drank a pint of rum 'for a laugh' and later died.

Andrew Thompson, 29, had been drinking cans of lager with friends at a football match then went to a friend's house where a group of men were drinking shots of fortified wine.

A friend recalled Mr Thompson being 'full of bravado' and pouring a bottle of rum into a pint glass and downing it in one, an inquest heard in Leeds.

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