A barmaid collapsed and died in work after drinking to the point where she was nearly six times over the drink-drive limit.
Annalise Smith, from Llanelli, had been working at The Vine Inn in the town on the evening of February 17 this year.
Miss Smith, who was 40, passed out during the early hours of the following morning inside the town centre pub after hours of drinking and never regained consciousness, Wales Online reports.
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At an inquest into her death, held on Friday (September 30), the coroner’s officer for Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, Malcolm Thompson, explained how Miss Smith had been “drinking steadily” in the hours leading up to her death as she worked behind the bar at The Vine.
Mr Thompson told the inquest: “At around 1am [on February 18], due to alcohol intoxication, she passed out on some chairs in the bar area. Two of her friends came to check on her and tried to rouse her and noticed that her lips had turned blue. An ambulance was called to the scene and a defibrillator was used but unfortunately she was pronounced dead at 3.45am.”
A post-mortem examination and a toxicology report were carried out at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen three days after Miss Smith’s death and it was determined that she had a “potentially fatal” amount of alcohol in her system – 478mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. For context assistant coroner for Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire Mark Layton outlined at the inquest that this equated to almost “six times the legal limit for drink-driving”.
Concluding the inquest Mr Layton said: “From the evidence it is clear and obvious that Miss Smith consumed a very large volume of alcohol. I record the death as an alcohol-related death. May I offer my condolences to Miss Smith’s family.”
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