A five year old boy watched his father die in front of him because drug overdose in Hull

News24xx.com -  A five-year-old boy named Tyler Cail had been enjoying a weekend with his father Mark, 36, when tragedy struck on September 24, 2017, at his home in Hull, east Yorkshire.

At that time, he watched his father die in front of him from a drug overdose. And he desperately called his grandma to tell that he 'couldn't wake his daddy'.

Before, the father and son fell asleep together and Tyler woke up in the early hours needing the toilet, but he could not rouse his father.

The following morning, Tyler still could not wake his father, and when he noticed blood pouring out of his nose, he reached for Mr Cail's phone.

And after the paramedics came, Tyler handed the keys to the house to through the letterbox, but tragically Mr Cail was already dead.

Mr Cail, who work as a freelance photographer, had been suffering with intense pain after a road traffic accident in January 2017 and left him with a pelvis fracture.  After the accident, Mr Cail was given prescribed medication to help him cope with the pain he was experiencing.
 

However, he often found himself struggling to get to sleep, which made him turn towards alcohol as a coping mechanism. He was known to be a heavy drinker, sometimes drinking up to 14 cans of lager a night. He also suffered from high blood pressure and mental health problems. 

Mr Cail's death has devastated his family, including Tyler's mum and Mr Cail's ex-partner, Donna Yates, and the little boy has had to receive counselling following the heartbreaking ordeal.

Mr Cail was found with a deadly cocktail of painkillers in his system which combined to kill him. He had a lethal level of oxycodone as well as a toxic amount of tramadol and therapeutic levels of alcohol in his body.

Assistant coroner James Hargan concluded Mr Cail died as a result of drug poisoning caused by overdosing on prescribed medication.

 

 

 

 

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