Keith Flint: Prodigy frontman ‘had cocaine in his system’ when he died

Coroner rules out suicide and misadventure as cause of musician’s death

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A coroner has reached an open verdict on the death of Keith Flint, after concluding there is not sufficient evidence that the former Prodigy frontman intended to kill himself.

Although a post-mortem found the cause of death to be hanging, a toxicology report revealed that Flint had “unspecified amounts of cocaine, alcohol and codeine in his system when he died”, the BBC reports.

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