Former English rugby player Tom Voyce exceeds the drink limit before death | News Uk

A former English rugby player is almost three times more than the limit before driving 4 × 4 to Ford during a storm, an examination has been heard.

Tom Voyce, 43, has tried to cross the Aln River, Northumberland, in his Toyota Hilux last December while Storm Darragh damaged the country.

Mr Voyce was seen at the Queen’s head pub in Glanton at 11:45 pm on December 7, shortly before he tried to go home, Hugh Wood, the brother of Mr Voyce Anna’s widow, told the trial at the County Hall in Morpeth.

Before that, the former England international who was closed nine times, had taken a photo shoot on his brother -in -law that day. The couple then went to the pub and spent the night with two other men.

After a major search after his wife lifted the alarm on December 8, Mr. Voyce’s body was found a few days later at Abberwick Ford on December 12.

Pathologist Dr. Clive Bloxham said water immersion is the cause of death and says Voyce is likely to have a ‘significant’ poisoning level.

Dr. Bloxham told the trial: ‘He does have high blood pressure levels.

“You will expect it to have a significant level of poisoning with this level and interfere with decision making before his death.”

The doctor added that the reading of 215 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood was detected – almost three times more than 80 milligrams.

Mr Voyce, who has a son named Oscar, has founded a business in Northumberland after a career in Rugby – with Tawon, Bath and Gloucester making 220 premiership performances – and banking.

Coronary Andrew Hetherington decided Mr Voyce’s death as an accident and found that he did not bring his regular route home in a storm.

Before his death, Mr. Wood said there was a photo shoot with 16 guests who had been hampered by the weather so that people even shared a bottle of port.

It ended at 17:30 and Wood said they were drinking on the head of the queen but did not see the bad effects on Mr. Voyce before the trip eight miles returned to Alnwick.

He added that the roads were flooded by the storm with flood and wind parts of about 30 MPH beat the area.

Mr Voyce failed to return to his wife, and a day later, he raised the alarm. On December 12, a diver found his body drowned under two meters of water in the factory pool.

Lisa Chisholm, a collector of excise on the head of Ratu, said Voyce had drank about four bottles of Cider Magners, had bought drinks for others and in a good mood before his death.

DC Victoria Henderson, an investigation of the leader, said the part of the car number plate had been destroyed on the edge of the water that suggested that it had approached Ford quickly.

He said Hilux was found in the ring gear which showed that Voyce might have tried to return to him before the vehicle stopped in the water.

It was damaged because it repeatedly hit the bridge near Ford before the water level dropped and left it under the bridge.

DC Henderson said it was unclear whether he tried to get out of the vehicle or even swept away by the current.

He added that the Ford warning road would be seen but the depth pole revealed the height of the flood was submerged on the opposite side.

Mrs. Voyce, in a statement, said: “Really broken and broken hearts don’t even describe our feelings.”

The widow had asked about the prospects of obstacles established in Ford to prevent vehicles from drifting away from the drift said he would continue this to the Northumberland Regency Council and the Northumbria police to be considered.

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