Dad died after accidentally drinking equivalent of hundreds of cups of coffee at once

A personal trainer died after consuming caffeine powder which was equivalent to a hundred cups of coffee.

Thomas Anthony Mansfield tragically passed away on January 5, 2021 after miscalculating how much caffeine to put in his pre-workout drink.

The father of two, who worked as a security guard and a personal trainer, had ordered a packet of caffeine powder from Blackburn Distribution, a UK-based supplement company.

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Mr Mansfield received the powder on the morning of January 5 and shortly afterwards put it in his drink to consume, an inquest heard.

The packet recommends taking between 60-300mg twice a day.

But the digital scale Mr Mansfield used to measure the powder had a starting weight of 2g - several times the maximum amount of a single serving.

John Gittins, senior coroner for North Wales east and central, heard that Mr Mansfield, of Lawson Road, Colwyn Bay, was "likely aiming for a mid range serving" when attempting to measure the powder but instead consumed too much of the supplement.

In a statement, Mr Mansfield's widow, Suzannah, said her late husband was "really healthy" and would normally drink no more than two cups of coffee a day.

She said that her husband "necked the remainder of the drink" after taking a sip and began "clutching his chest" shortly afterwards before lying down on the sofa.

Suzannah recalls how she saw her husband begin frothing at the mouth - she quickly ran out the house in order to seek help from neighbours and family members who lived nearby.

Within minutes, an ambulance arrived at the scene and the crew used a defibrillator as Thomas had a "grossly abnormal" heart rhythm and was suffering a cardiac arrest.

He was then taken to Ysbyty Glan Clwyd where resuscitation attempts were