Rev Richard Coles calls for end to glamourising of alcoholism on TV
Coles’s husband, David Coles, died in December 2019 at Kettering General hospital after what was initially described as “a long illness”. “My husband David died of alcoholic liver disease just before Christmas 2019. He was 43, a clergyman, and a former A&E charge nurse,” Coles said. “Not an obvious victim, you might think, of alcoholism, but he had been drinking excessively since his teenage years, as a palliative – alcohol is the most readily available anaesthetic in the world – and as a recreation.” On Narcos, he said he was a fan of the series as it “pulls no punches de...