Vincent ran Quinns and lived in a flat in the Camden Town landmark pub 

A POPULAR former pub manager was found dead at the bottom of stairs with “excessively” high levels of alcohol in his blood, an inquest has revealed.

Vincent Quinn, who had managed Quinn’s in Kentish Town Road, was five-and-a-half times over the drink-drive limit when he was found by police and his brother Dominic at his flat next to the pub on February 22.

Friends had raised the alarm after they had not heard from him for a couple of weeks and he had not turned up to work.

Giving a narrative verdict that Mr Quinn had died from acute alcohol toxicity, assistant coroner Sarah Bourke said: “He had clearly been dead for some time.

“Concerns had been raised by friends after they hadn’t seen him for three weeks and he had not been at work. He was found slumped at the bottom of the stairs.

“Following a post-mortem and toxicology report, blood-alcohol levels were found to be toxic. It was an alcohol-related death.”

A toxicology report found that he had blood-alcohol levels of 441mg per 100ml of blood, with 400ml usually proving fatal.

Michael Sheaff, who carried out the post-mortem, gave written evidence which said that while there was no “clear” cause of death, “excessively” high levels of alcohol in Mr Quinn’s blood was associated with symptoms including “attacking the central nervous system, a coma, respiratory depression and death”.

PC Adam Waller Davies had gone to Mr Quinn’s home and found the 59-year-old dead on a landing leading to his bathroom between two sets of stairs.

In a written statement read to St Pancras Coroner’s Court, he said: “There was no sign of any forced entry, both doors were locked and we found both keys. We therefore believed that he had fallen down the stairs while under the influence of alcohol.”