Young Farmer Dies After Swallowing Rat Poison

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A coroner has called for better labelling on a form of rat poison after hearing how a young farmer "desperate" to get back with his ex- girlfriend died after taking some.

Ryan Davis, 23, from East Huntspill, Somerset, swallowed Phostoxin, which is only issued under licence, on December 22 last year but then appeared to have second thoughts. An inquest into his death at Flax Bourton Coroner's Court, near Bristol, heard when an ambulance arrived Mr Davis handed the canister to a paramedic, but the label was missing.

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Young Farmer Dies After Swallowing Rat Poison

Avon deputy coroner Terrence Moore said there was nothing on the canister or label that said Phostoxin could cau...

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