Inquest rules death at Fatboy Slim's Brighton party an accident

An inquest has said the death of party-goer Karen Manders at Fatboy Slim’s Brighton beach party earlier this year was an accident. She had taken a cocktail of drink and drugs before she fell from a wall on the Lower Promenade. She died at Brighton's Royal Sussex County Hospital on 16 Jul. Pathologist Dr Neera Patel told the inquest Manders had drunk enough to put her twice over the drink-drive limit and had also taken MDMA, or ecstasy. "It is likely that she would have been disorientated, in terms of not knowing who she was or where she was. It could have made her agitated. In my opinion, this level of MDMA, together with the alcohol would have affected her behaviour."