Timothy Southern, a 53-year-old from Litchfield, England, died final yr after trying to drink 21 cocktails from a pool bar menu while on a vacation on the Royal Decameron Membership Caribbean in Jamaica.
A yr after he died in his lodge room, in a latest inquest (a judicial inquiry right into a loss of life) household of Timothy Southern slammed the lodge workers and nurses’ response to the incident. The household acknowledged that the nurse’s alleged inexperience contributed to Southern’s loss of life.
In Might 2022, Timothy Southern was reportedly on a vacation along with his sister, youngsters, and different relations, when he met two Canadian girls on the pool bar in Royal Decameron Membership Caribbean, in Jamaica. The ladies have been allegedly attempting to finish the problem the place a person was dared to drink 21 cocktails from the lodge pool bar menu.
Southern, who determined to affix the ladies within the problem, reportedly drank 12 cocktails earlier than retiring to his room within the lodge. He later grew to become sick and died within the room. A Jamaican pathologist declared the reason for loss of life as ‘acute gastroenteritis attributable to alcohol consumption, which was later confirmed by Staffordshire space coroner Emma Serrano who dominated the loss of life as alcohol-related.
Timothy Southern’s household slams ‘”disgusting” therapy of lodge workers that allegedly contributed to his loss of life
A yr after Timothy Southern was pronounced useless in his lodge room at Royal Decameron Membership Caribbean in Jamaica, his household, at a latest inquest, blamed the lodge workers and nurse over their “disgusting” therapy after he was discovered unresponsive on the ground.
On the inquest, one in every of them stated that Southern was already inebriated when he met the 2 girls on the lodge pool bar and determined to affix them within the seemingly harmful competitors that dares individuals to devour 21 cocktails from the menu. Southern, who was over-served on the bar, then retired to his room, the place he was discovered by one of many members of the family choking.
“He was on his again choking. I put him within the restoration place and screamed for an ambulance. He was making a gurgling sound. As quickly as he was within the restoration place he vomited. I used to be shouting his title with no response.”
When the nurse lastly arrived on the room, the member of the family reportedly inquired if an ambulance had been known as, to which the medical personnel allegedly responded with a unfavorable. The nurse then supposedly stood idly as Timothy Southern’s situation started to deteriorate.
“I assumed she would take over. However that was not the case. I seen he was beginning to lose temperature. I checked his pulse and could not discover it.”
Nevertheless, the nurse allegedly maintained that he had a pulse and continued to do nothing till the member of the family directed her to carry out CPR.
“I stated, ‘Do not simply sit there him, begin CPR’. She solely gave him chest compressions. Possibly if she had recognized what she was doing, perhaps he would nonetheless be right here. The service and therapy he obtained was disgusting.”
Within the wake of Timothy Souther’s passing, the household launched a GoFundMe to lift cash to switch his stays from Jamaica to England. The fundraiser, which raised over $12,000 since being created final yr, continues to be open for donations because the donations inch intently towards the goal quantity of $19,000.
