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Live BlogReport: New probe indicates that Gerry Ryan didn't die from cocaine
A report commissioned by the RTÉ presenter’s family questions the conclusion of the inquest into Ryan’s death last year.
THE COCAINE THAT broadcaster Gerry Ryan took the night before his death did not kill him according to the results of a never-released toxicology report commissioned by his family.
The Irish Daily Star reports that the Ryan family hired chemical pathology expert Dr Bill Tormey to examine the toxicology tests and told the newspaper that the results indicated that Ryan, who died nearly a year ago, could not have died from taking cocaine only.
An inquest into the RTÉ presenter’s death last December found that the traces of cocaine in his system were likely to have triggered the cardiac arrhythmia which led to his death.
Dr Tormey told the Irish Daily Star that the interpretation of the evidence was “too simplistic” and said it would be “totally inaccurate to put it [Ryan's death] down to cocaine only.”
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