A GRIEVING heroin addict has died alone in the toilet of a Worcester train station.

Jason Tandy, a drug addict from the age of 16 who managed to come off heroin, was believed to have hit a downward spiral after his baby son Tristan died, two years ago.

News of his death comes a week after warnings of the Class A drug "saturating" the streets of Worcester.

Police are still investigating the cause of the 24-year-old's death at Shrub Hill Station, but his parents fear contaminated heroin could be to blame.

Mr Tandy stayed at St Paul's Hostel in Tallow Hill for nine days last month.

"We had concerns about him, that he needed some medication and we got him to see a GP," said St Paul's co-ordinator Terri Preece. "We also helped him make contact with psychiatric services.

"Unfortunately, we found some drug-using equipment in his room and had to ask him to leave. St Paul's is very strict on its policy. We don't allow drug use on the premises.

"We feel terrible this has happened to Jason, but that's our rule as we have to ensure the safety of drug users and other residents here.

"Our sympathies go out to his family. Yet again somebody else's son has died as a result of drugs.

"We had someone overdose in the toilets here in St Paul's last week and drug-related tragedies are becoming an alarming regularity."

In the Evening News last week, she feared addicts would either overdose, die as a result of a bad batch of heroin, or turn to crime to fund their habit.

Mr Tandy's parents Phil and Sylvia, who have two other children, believe he had not intended to kill himself but died after possibly taking contaminated heroin.

"We don't know it was contaminated, but we don't know it wasn't," said Mrs Tandy. "I feel very angry because, as far as I'm concerned, that drug dealer killed my youngest child."

Her husband is hurt that his son died alone.

"He felt his life had fallen to pieces when Tristan died," he said.

The couple, of Churchdown, near Gloucester, want to prevent others becoming involved in drugs.

"Parents need to talk to their children and help them get off drugs because there's no way they can lead a normal life while still on them," said Mrs Tandy.

"We managed to get him off drugs three times before. We locked him in his room and held him while he got the drugs out of his system.

"But I still sit here blaming myself. Drugs can completely destroy a family."

A spokeswoman for West Mercia police said circumstances surrounding the death were still being investigated.

Mr Tandy was discovered by a British Tranpsort police officer on Thursday, July 20.

An inquest has been opened and adjourned to allow time for investigations and forensic tests to continue.

Jason's funeral will be held at Cheltenham Cemetery Chapel this Thursday.

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