Alex Waycot, 21, tragically died in August 2019, months after his family reportedly paid for him to go on a £5,000 drug rehabilitation course. Alex, who lived in Lincolnshire, was a member of the Leicester Tigers Academy and played for years for the youth sides at Oakham Rugby Club in Rutland. The Mail Online reports that Mr Waycot died in Macclesfield, Cheshire, where he was living at the time taking a barbering course. Coroner Alan Moore found Mr Waycot died as a result of misadventure, saying he had been a 'naïve user' of heroin. At the time of his death Oakham Rugby Club held a minute's silence in memory of the former sportsman.

Source: Daily Mirror March 10, 2021 03:11 UTC