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Eryl Crump & Jenny Kirkham

Much-loved woman who died on romantic getaway had taken cocktail of drugs

Cocaine, diazepam and date-rape drug GHB were found in a young woman's system after she tragically died on a romantic getaway.

Much-loved Hollie Sheridan-Connis took a deadly cocktail of drugs and alcohol before dying in the early hours of January 1, 2019.

The 24-year-old, from Birkenhead, had travelled to North Wales with her on/off boyfriend Ryan Lee Weston after the two rekindled their relationship a few weeks before.

When they pair arrived at Glan y Gro Lakeside Suites they quickly started drinking alcohol before taking a number of drugs that 32-year-old Weston supplied.

In the early hours of the morning, Weston found Hollie collapsed and not breathing before she was pronounced dead by paramedics.

According to North Wales Live, at an inquest at Caernarfon on Tuesday, senior coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones said the role her boyfriend played was not relevant to the inquest.

The coroner added: "They both took the drugs and unfortunately Hollie died. The inquest is not concerned with what happened to him.

"The function of the hearing is to determine how the deceased died."

Mr Jones said blood samples taken by a forensic pathologist during a post-mortem examination found traces of cocaine, ecstasy, amphetamine and ketamine and their metabolytes.

The anti-depressant diazepam and the so-called date rape drug GHB was also found in her system.

Alcohol was also found at a level of 212 microgrammes of alcohol to 100 millilitres of blood.

The coroner noted the drink drive limit is 80.

The pathologist recorded the cause of death was alcohol and multiple drug toxicity.

Concluding the 12-minute hearing the coroner said the alcohol had enhanced the effect of the drugs.

Mr Jones said: "The large quantity of drugs had caused her death.

"The formal verdict is that Hollie Sheridan-Connis died of the abuse of drugs."

Weston of Oteley Avenue, Bromborough was jailed in January for 21 months after he admitted supplying the drugs to Ms Sheridan-Connis.

During the court case, where Weston pleaded guilty supplying Hollie with cocaine, ecstasy, amphetamine and ketamine, it was heard that

Weston and Ms Sheridan-Connis had been in a relationship for about five years and described it as "volatile".

Her family were concerned about the relationship and in December 2018 it was being conducted without their knowledge.

Mr Curtis said in early December Weston had filmed himself buying a number of rats at a pet shop and then took them to her home and released them in her bedroom.

He also scrawled the word "rat" on a picture board.

The previous month there had been an incident in which Weston had lashed out at Ms Sheridan-Connis breaking her jaw.

But the couple had been reconciled and on New Year's Eve had travelled to Bala and during the evening had agreed to become engaged.

Ms Sheridan-Connis had called friends to let them know of this and she was said to have been "in high spirits and happy" before her death.

In the days after her death, Hollie's grandmother, Mary Connis, paid tribute to her "gorgeous granddaughter".

She said: "People who know me know for a long time my gorgeous granddaughter lived with me, what can I say Hollie Pops my heart is broken in two.

"No words to say how all our family are heartbroken. Hope you are at peace my lovely granddaughter."

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