{"id":108426,"date":"2021-01-14T16:18:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T16:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=108426"},"modified":"2021-01-14T16:18:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T16:18:40","slug":"senior-advisor-in-cabinet-office-47-found-dead-in-bedroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/senior-advisor-in-cabinet-office-47-found-dead-in-bedroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior advisor in Cabinet Office, 47, found dead in bedroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Senior advisor in Cabinet Office, 47, who turned to alcohol after death of his parents was more than five times drink-drive limit when his body was found in bedroom of his Cornish home, inquest hears<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Andrew Timms, 47,\u00a0\u00a0was discovered dead at his home in Tehidy, Cornwall<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mr Timms&#8217; drinking escalated after his father passed away five years ago<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mother died from cancer just 3 months before his death on July 22, 2020<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Worked as senior quality advisor in the Cabinet Office in Kingston upon Thames\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A senior advisor to the Cabinet Office was more than five times drink-drive limit when he was found dead in his bedroom, an inquest heard.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Timms, 47, was more than five-times over the drink-drive limit when he was discovered dead at home in\u00a0Tehidy, Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Timms&#8217; drinking escalated after his father passed away five years ago and was\u00a0compounded when his mother died from cancer just three months before his own death on July 22, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He worked as a\u00a0senior quality advisor in the Cabinet Office in Kingston upon Thames, London, but was signed off sick with stress, anxiety and a low mood.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Timms suffered from a psychotic breakdown and &#8216;was drinking heavily&#8217;, Coroner Guy Davies said.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives warned that\u00a0&#8216;alcohol would get the better of him&#8217;\u00a0and &#8216;it would eventually kill him&#8217;, the inquest heard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/01\/14\/15\/38007840-9147461-image-a-14_1610638608098.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A senior advisor to the Cabinet Office was more than five times drink-drive limit when he was found dead in his bedroom in Tehidy, Cornwall (file image, pictured), an inquest heard<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Davies added: &#8216;This is a tragic case of a man whose career and lifestyle were destroyed by alcoholism which led to his death last summer.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Timms was admitted to hospital on numerous occasions with alcohol withdrawal and seizures and had the support of alcohol groups in Cornwall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But he &#8216;minimised his alcohol use and the effects on his health and lifestyle&#8217; and was drinking large quantities of lager and vodka.<\/p>\n<p>Several empty vodka bottles were found in his home in Tehidy.<\/p>\n<p>His blood alcohol level was 435ml of alcohol in his blood &#8211; the legal alcohol limit for driving is 80ml.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Timms had been arrested for drink driving a month before his death last July.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Davies recorded a conclusion of an alcohol related death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9147461\/Senior-advisor-Cabinet-Office-47-dead-bedroom-Cornish-home-inquest-hears.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior advisor in Cabinet Office, 47, who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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