The inquest into Mr Burrow’s death at the Royal Court Residence in Jersey heard how his grandmother, Doreen Burrow, 84, discovered him slumped unconscious on the floor of her bathroom in Saint Brélade, on November 26 last 12 months and dialled 999.
He had overdosed on following injecting himself with Fentanyl, a powerful prescription painkiller, and paramedics have been unable to revive him.
Mr Burrow turned to the drug, which is usually administered gradually in a patch in excess of a period of three days, soon after establishing a habit for heroin.
His addiction led to many stints in rehabilitation centres and a spell in jail for trying to smuggle heroin into the Channel Islands.
The day just before he died, Mr Burrow had overdosed on Fentanyl – a prescription opiate 100 instances more powerful than heroin – at a friend’s residence, but he refused to go to hospital for remedy.
The inquest heard he had .01 mg of Fentanyl and .43 mg of diazepam in his system.
Nicholas Hubbard, a medicines professional, informed the inquest that as tiny as .003 mg of Fentanyl can demonstrate fatal, less than a third of what Mr Burrow had injected.
Mr Hubbard explained that the patches had been getting to be a drug of selection for users who can not effortlessly entry heroin in the Channel Islands, in which it can expense 10 instances the street price tag in the Uk.
He explained: “It is a rather unsafe method since it is quite challenging to know how much Fentanyl has been abstracted from the patch and it really is impossible to know how significantly is acquiring injected.”
Emma Pankhurst, Mr Burrow’s cousin, told the inquest they had been close pals when he was in his sporting heyday, representing Britain, winning the European championship in 2002 and rising up the globe rankings as high as amount 13.
But she explained they fell out when he acquired into the “wrong crowd” and started out abusing drugs.
In April 2010 Mr Burrow was jailed for three many years for helping a lady, Helia Filipa Da Silva, to import heroin from the United kingdom to Jersey.
The inquest was informed he underwent treatment with the island’s Alcohol and Drugs Services and remained clean for short periods but frequently relapsed.
A statement read out to the inquest from a pal who experimented with to revive him the night just before his death, mentioned: “I don’t consider Matthew took his very own lifestyle.
“We all know the dangers of taking the gear. It really is like Russian roulette. We all know the consequences.”
The coroner, Deputy Viscount Mark Harris, said in summing up: “It was a unhappy and untimely death caused by Fentanyl poisoning, a powerful pain relief drug which Mr Burrow had unlawfully picked up.”
Mr Burrow’s grandmother explained following the inquest: “He started playing croquet when he was 14 and continued right up until about two years before his death.
“It was a prolonged time ago that he received into medicines. He stopped but then acquired in with the incorrect individuals once more.
“He was down in the dumps and could not find work. His dad dying eight many years in the past did not aid. I consider that he looked for something to help him come to feel far better.
“He did so nicely with his croquet. I was very proud of him – it was a shame it ended like this. I couldn’t have had a nicer grandson. To me he was a lovely lad.”
Michael Gafoor from the Jersey Alcohol and Medicines Support warned that prescription drug abuse is turning into rife in Jersey because typical narcotics are so difficult to acquire.
He said: “One gram of heroin in London is well worth £50, the exact same gram in Jersey is worth £500, so end users in Jersey have a tendency to depend far more on prescribed drugs.
“In the United kingdom people have a tendency to use heroin in excess of Fentanyl simply because it is more offered. Heroin is quite tough to get hold of in Jersey.
“It can be extremely unsafe if it is employed inappropriately.”
Former croquet champion died after spiralling into drug addiction, inquest hears
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