A YOUNG man has been found dead from a suspected drug overdose just weeks after leaving Bolton in a bid to kick his heroin addiction.

Randolph Goddings, aged 25, woke to find younger brother Keith, 24, dead in the bedroom of a DSS hotel in Blackpool.

Their devastated mother Caroline Iddon, of Newlands Avenue, Breightmet, had paid for her sons and a friend to to go to the holiday resort to help cure them of their long standing heroin habit.

On Friday afternoon the pair picked up Keith's weekly supply of Diazapam and Temazepam prescribed to wean him off heroin.

They then went to Randolph's room at the Vegas Palace Hotel, Derby Road, North Shore where Keith is believed to have injected heroin before the brothers both fell asleep.

Randolph woke two hours later to find Keith, who had been living in Kentmere Drive, Breightmet, dead. Mrs Iddon said: "The doctors say he had been dead about an hour and a half. Randolph is gutted. The boys were so close they were like a knot, you could not part them.

"They have been on drugs since their late teens and I paid for them to go to Blackpool to sort themselves out.

"I sent Keith to London last year and he got on really well but he came back to Bolton for visit and that was that. "Next thing he was back on the drugs and into all the rubbish that goes with it.

"Around here he knows where to score and who to get the drugs from. I thought it would be more difficult for him in Blackpool. Obviously I was wrong."

Mrs Goddings said the police were looking for her son while he was in Blackpool for what she believes were petty offences related to Keith's drug habit. "He was a good boy really and and he would have made a brilliant dad one day if he had managed to get off the drugs."

A 19-year-old was found dead in the same hotel surrounded by drugs last December.

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