A 25-YEAR-OLD man died of diabetes complications after failing to control the condition, an inquest heard.

Sam Russell's "non-compliance" with medical advice led to a condition called Fatal Diabetic Ketoacidosis, Assistant Dorset Coroner Debbie Rookes was told.

Mr Russell, who lived in a bedsit in St John's Road, Boscombe, was also a drug user and the Bournemouth inquest was told the use of illicit heroin also contributed to his death.

He leaves a six-year-old daughter, who lives with her mother in Scotland.

The coroner was told that Mr Russell was found dead in his bedsit on October 22 last year by his stepbrother, David Kinsella.

Mr Kinsella had been asked to check on him because Mr Russell's father was concerned when he had not heard from him.

He found him dead on the floor and alerted the emergency services.

Police investigating the death concluded there were no suspicious circumstances.

Detective Inspector Jamie Halford said two mobile phones found in the bedsit revealed evidence of drug use.

He had arranged to receive cocaine and heroin from a member of a county lines drugs dealing network just three days before he died.

Recording a conclusion that Mr Russell died of natural causes, Mrs Rookes said: "He had poorly-controlled diabetes, mainly due to non-compliance.

"He had been admitted to hospital several times with Diabetic Ketoacidosis. He died of natural causes, exacerbated by drug use."