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| Train death cricketer Tom Maynard was high on drugs | |
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| Cricketer Tom Maynard was electrocuted on a railway line before being struck by train as he tried to evade police after driving while drunk and high on drugs, an inquest heard. | |
| The 23-year-old Cardiff-born batsman was found near Wimbledon Park station shortly after 05:00 BST on 18 June. | |
| He had earlier been stopped by police after he was seen driving his black Mercedes erratically. | |
| But the Surrey player fled, leaving his keys in the ignition. | |
| A post-mortem examination showed he was nearly four times the legal alcohol limit to drive and had also taken cocaine and ecstasy in the form of MDMA after a night out with his two flatmates in Wandsworth, south London. | |
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| Tests on hair samples indicted Mr Maynard, who had been widely tipped as a future England international, may have been a regular drug user up to three and half months before his death, the inquest heard. | |
| Mr Maynard's family issued a statement on Tuesday through the Professional Cricketers' Association which read: "The results of the inquest do not define our son. | |
| "The fact that so very many people thought the world of him is what defines him as a person. | |
| "The only people who would judge Tom on the findings of the inquest are people who didn't know him. He made choices that night that tragically cost him his life but his devastated family and friends will love and miss him unconditionally always. | |
| "He was a very special person and his death leaves a huge hole in all our lives." |