A tragic dad who was allegedly knelt on by police and brutalised by bouncers in Spain died after he was injected twice with fentanyl, his family have claimed.
Tobias White-Sansom, 35, fell into a coma and died in hospital on July 31, 2022, five days after he was involved in an altercation on the Magaluf strip last year, reports the Daily MIrror.
His desperate family had petitioned to Spanish authorities for his body to be flown home, and they finally managed to lay him to rest in his home city of Nottingham in October of last year.
The family have discovered that shortly before suffering a cardiac arrest Tobias was injected with fentanyl by medics, who have since claimed that they were acting under the orders of the police.
A medical report shows that two doses of the lethal drug were given intravenously - once while he lay on the ground outside the nightclub and then a second time inside an ambulance.
Tobias' brother Maximillian White said: "Realistically, I think that Toby died from the fentanyl which they injected him with.
"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. Are the police allowed to do that?"
Maximillian continued: "If the police were trying to say that Toby was being aggressive, then why would you inject him with fentanyl?
"And if he was passed out, then why would you inject him with fentanyl, not adrenaline or something?
"However you want to look at it, it doesn't seem right what they did. They can say that Toby died days later at the hospital, but Toby died outside that nightclub on those streets by himself, after he was injected the first time.
"Because after that - they managed to resuscitate him after 25 minutes - he was dead. All they did was bring his pulse back, and then they put that pulse in an ambulance, injected him again, and he went again.
"He never really had a chance, and it's terribly sad because I'm going through this stage where I can't remember what it was like to have him around.
"His children are getting older and I'm trying to do my best by them that I can, while also dealing with some heartache of my own."
Spain has seen a rise in its prescriptions for fentanyl in recent years, which doubled between 2010 and 2016.
The Spanish health ministry updated its prescription guidelines in response this, and stated that a "high percentage of treatments do not comply with the authorised conditions of use for these drugs".
It added: "The information analysed shows that the overall consumption of fentanyl in Spain has increased in recent years.
"Within the scope of the National Health System, there has been a progressive increase in the use of immediate-release fentanyl preparations, with consumption doubling in 2016 compared to 2010, a higher use than in other neighbouring countries."
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."
Labour MP Nadia Whittome has written a letter to Mike Freer, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Ministry of Justice, in an attempt to speed up the proceedings.
She told the Mirror: "It has been over nine months since Tobias’ death in harrowing circumstances, yet his family are still waiting for answers, let alone for those responsible to be held to account.
"I have written to the minister in charge of courts and legal services, urging that an inquest take place as swiftly as possible."
At the time, the Spanish civil guard said it was called to reports of an assault of a bouncer.
It 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 Spanish civil guard have been approached for further comment.
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