A MAN who was found unconscious in a bathroom is suspected to have died from drug use.

Peter Melville collapsed in the bathroom on July 15 at the age 44 and was rushed to the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading

A pre-inquest opening at Berkshire’s Coroners Court on Tuesday (September 19) heard that he was taken into intensive care where it was discovered he had sepsis and several abscesses.

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The hospital offered a medical cause of death as multiple organ failure due to intravenous drug use.

A full inquest into his death will take place at the same court on October 25 at 2pm.