A CROPREDY festival-goer who suffered two epileptic fits while at the folk music event was found drowned in the Oxford canal the following morning.
Andrew Clare, 55, was said to have experienced the two seizures while attending the Fairport's Cropredy Convention on the evening of August 11 this year.
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He was monitored at the festival site for ‘a few hours’ until he was ‘no longer confused’, his inquest heard.
Mr Clare, a furniture removals company administrator from Sudbury, Suffolk, was given a lift back to where he was staying in Mollington, near Banbury, at around 1.30am.
His body was found in the Oxford canal by Spiceball Park at 7am that morning.
Assistant coroner Gemma Brannigan concluded that Mr Clare had drowned ‘as a result of epilepsy’. His medical cause of death was found to be drowning.
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This story was written by Tom Seaward. He joined the team in 2021 as Oxfordshire's court and crime reporter.
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