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St John's College on St Giles, Oxford. Picture: Google Maps AN OXFORD college has said it was 'surprised' by a coroner’s ruling over the death of a 23-year-old physics student who died of an overdose. Daniel Mervis, from North London, who was a student at St John’s College, died during an accidental drug overdose in October 2019 – just two months after relapsing into addiction after being eight months clean. Now the coroner for Oxfordshire has called for Oxford University to overhaul its drugs policy. In a report published last week, the coroner directly criticised the drugs pol...
Share Hilton Mervis, Daniel's father and partner in a law firm, welcomed the report, saying: 'This is the first occasion when a university has been required to take a holistic look at its drug misuse policy. 'Hopefully it will be the catalyst for significant but easy changes which involve students and universities working together to prevent future deaths. 'At the heart of this is allowing students to get help for themselves or their friends without automatic sanction. 'The scale and impact of drug misuse and addiction in those failing to complete the university degrees or dying will never be...