Amy Winehouse’s ex-brother-in-law, Freddy Civil, died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27

Amy Winehouse’s ex-brother-in-law, Freddy Civil, died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27.
The cause of death was revealed on Tuesday (22.11.22) during an inquest at Wakefield Coroner’s Court in West Yorkshire, attended by Freddy’s brother, 40, Blake Fielder-Civil.
He was married to Amy, who also died aged 27, from 2007 to 2009.
Pathologist Lisa Barker told jurors that Freddy was found face down in his underwear on April 26, 2021, at a Leeds hotel where he was staying with his friend Dennis Lennon.
The Daily Mail reported that she told the hearing that Freddy had “fatal levels” of morphine in his body from injecting heroin, while an internal examination found he choked on his own vomit.
Mrs Barker told the court: “It was indicated as the lower end of the fatal range. It could be survived by someone who took heroin regularly, because they build up a tolerance, but it can even be overdosed by a chronic user.
“It was in the fatal range, even for someone with a history of heroin use.”
The inquest also heard that Freddy was staying at the £40-a-night Bed and Breakfast where he died after escaping from a mental health hospital, which his mother said he had complained about.
Jurors were told that Freddy escaped on foot from Newton Lodge, a mental health facility in the grounds of Fieldhead Hospital, Wakefield.
A judge had sentenced him to the psychiatric unit in the fall of 2018 following an unspecified crime.
Doctors initially diagnosed Freddy with paranoid schizophrenia, but it was later determined that the condition was drug-induced.
Freddy’s mother, Georgette Civil, told the court her son’s hospital stay was due to end in June 2021 and said she had raised a “complaint of personal abuse”.
She added that he was often “shuffled from ward to ward” with just one hour of exercise and activity a day.
Blake, who battled addiction throughout his marriage to Amy, admitted to introducing the “Back to Black” singer to heroin.
She is believed to have given up hard drugs after they split, but was killed by alcohol poisoning on 23 July 2011 at her home in Camden, north London.