He said: 'This problem is not a university problem but a country-wide problem. 'I have dealt with many cases like this as a coroner and sadly this death comes as no surprise to me,' he said.Ī spokesman for the University of Warwick expressed his sympathies with the Venezias and said the university urged students to drink responsibly.
Sean McGovern, the Coventry and Warwickshire coroner, said Jason had died from the misuse of alcohol and recorded a verdict of misadventure. The two friends then agreed to pay him £20 each if he could drink the rest of the bottle. The trio had consumed around a quarter of the bottle of vodka and then went out to a bar, where they had more shots of vodka, before returning home. The Coventry inquest heard how last May, Mr Venezia, whose father is Italian, had been drinking with the friends at their halls of residence. She added that while the couple and their surviving son did not blame anyone for Mr Venezia's death, they 'feel that there is an issue surrounding the heavy-drinking culture within university life which needs to be addressed'.Ĭampus: The student was found dead in his room on the campus of Warwick University, above Mrs Venezia said: 'If it was illegal to drink alcohol (at his age), I don't think Jason would have done it.'
On Tuesday Mr Venezia's parents, Ennio, who runs an IT business and Joan, both 53, called for the legal drinking age to be raised from 18 to 21. The friends - a man and a woman - checked on him every 15 minutes for two hours because they were worried he would choke on his own vomit.īut the Warwick University student was found dead the next afternoon of acute alcohol poisoning.Ī post-mortem examination discovered he was over six times the legal drink-drive limit. The first-year psychology undergraduate had been promised £40 if he could drink the remaining three-quarters of the litre bottle - at a rate of one shot every 45 seconds.īut after drinking 15 shots and with a quarter of a litre still to go, Mr Venezia was left unable to stand or talk and his two friends put him to bed. Jason Venezia, 19, downed half a litre of vodka in just 20 minutes as he tried to win a bet with his friends. The mother of a student who drank himself to death in an end-of-term drinking game has attacked the 'heavy-drinking culture' she says is casting a shadow over university life.
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