'Adult death syndrome' victim

An adult version of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome was yesterday blamed for the death of Eke Onwere, 21, a Cambridge University law student, who collapsed and died weeks before her finals. Dr Nat Cary, a Home Office pathologist, conducting a study into Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, told a Cambridge inquest her death was due to natural causes which could not be defined.

'There's no doubt a number of people do collapse and die suddenly without any apparent explanation. It's an area the medical world does not understand,' he said. An open verdict was recorded.