Saudi prince died at Kensington hotel after taking cocktail of drugs

A Saudi prince was found dead at a Kensington hotel after taking a cocktail of drugs and alcohol.

Abdullah bin Fahad bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Jalawi al Saud was almost three times the drink-drive limit and had traces of gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), cannabis, and Xanax in his system.

His body was discovered in his bathroom at the £600-a-night Marriott Hotel in Kensington, West London, on Nov 25 last year.

The court heard that the deceased had been struggling with the use of alcohol and Xanax.

Three months earlier, he had been an inpatient at the Priory Clinic in Roehampton, south-west London, where a stay can cost as much as £35,000 a week.

There, he was detoxed from alcohol, benzodiazepines and the anti-anxiety drug Pregabalin.

An inquest at Inner West London Coroner’s Court heard that the 29-year-old had checked into the hotel on Nov 19 for a one-week stay.

The prince was last seen on CCTV on the evening before his death going outside to smoke a cigarette.

A cleaner subsequently found him lying fully clothed on the bathroom floor of his locked fifth-floor room.

Paramedics were unable to resuscitate him and he was pronounced dead.

A toxicology report heard that the young royal had a blood ethanol concentration of 222mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. The drink-drive limit is 80mg.