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Paul Drury

Murderer’s overdose death at Scots prison ruled ‘unavoidable’ by sheriff

A sheriff has ruled there was nothing prison staff could have done to prevent an inmate dying from an overdose.

Sheriff Neil Bowie said the task of keeping drugs out of jail was near-impossible after probing the cocaine -induced death of murderer Deyan Nikolov.

Nikolov, 33, was found slumped in his cell at Glenochil Prison in Clackmannanshire in June 2018.

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