A 38-year-old man found dead in a hotel room had been battling heroin addiction for at least 15 years, an inquest heard.
Stuart Swales visited Blackpool with friends in March and booked into the Royal Windsor Hotel for two nights. Stuart had been having a 'good time' but was found slumped over a bath tub in the en-suite, in the early hours of March 6, a hearing at Blackpool Town Hall heard.
Despite the best efforts of hotel staff, who carried out CPR, he was pronounced dead by paramedics a short time later. The inquest heard that prior to finding him, staff had repeatedly knocked on his door and the duty manager eventually had to use a master key to gain entry.
