A dad who was allegedly knelt on by police and beaten up by bouncers in Spain died after being injected with super-strength painkiller fentanyl, his family said. Tobias White-Sansom, 35, slipped into a coma and died in hospital five days after the incident on the Magaluf strip in Majorca.
His family has since discovered that, shortly before going into cardiac arrest, Tobias was injected with fentanyl by medics. A medical report seen by the Mirror shows that two doses were given intravenously - once while he lay on the ground outside the nightclub and a second time inside an ambulance.
Fentanyl is a strong opioid painkiller up to 100 times more potent than morphine.
Tobias pictured in hospital (Image: mirrorpix)
Tobias' brother Maximillian White said: "They pulled him outside the club while he was semi-conscious and handcuffed. They sat on him while he was shouting about not being able to breathe and they then decided to give him an injection.
"It was after that injection which sent him into cardiac arrest. Then when the ambulance came and he was okay, they gave him another injection and that took him into cardiac arrest again."
Tobias' cousin, Ricardo White, questioned why the father-of-two was injected with fentanyl.
He told the Mirror: "Obviously with it being such a dangerous drug, when you inject it, a slightly wrong amount can cause cardiac arrest, and that's what happened - he went into cardiac arrest.
"They then resuscitated him, which took them 25 minutes, put him in the ambulance and they administered a second dose of fentanyl, and then he slipped into a coma.
"The police say that they ordered the ambulance to make an injection because he was uncontrollable. And all the videos that we have show that when police brought him out of the club, he was actually semi-unconscious.
"His head was rolling back, he'd been beaten by the bouncers, he was unable to fight anything."
Acting Senior Coroner Andrew Barkley, of Staffordshire South Coroner’s Service, previously decided that an inquest into Tobias' death will be necessary.
Tobias' family previously told how a night out turned to tragedy when they visited the nightclub
Police said at the time that private security informed them of an assault on a bouncer, and the suspect was given a tranquiliser before being taken to hospital, where he died.
Witnesses alleged bouncers hit and kicked Tobias, before "pinning him to the floor" while he "screamed non-stop". Witnesses also alleged that once Tobias was brought outside, police "hit him with batons" as well as other "people in the crowd".
Eight police officers then knelt on Tobias, it was claimed, before he was taken to hospital by an ambulance.
The Spanish civil guard said in a previous statement: "Upon the arrival of the Guardia Civil police, this man was violent and police reduced him to be assisted by medical services. He was taken to the hospital for treatment.
"There, once while he was being assisted, he was arrested for a crime of injury."
The Mirror has contacted the Spanish civil guard for further comment.
