University student drowned after leaving ambulance, coroner finds

Summarised from Leicestershire Live's report · Updated 4 Nov, 18:03 · Archive

A Loughborough University student found dead in a river could have been taken to hospital by paramedics hours earlier, a coroner has determined.

Aryan Sharma disappeared during a night out in Loughborough town centre on 21 November. A member of the public found him on the ground in the street at around 10.50pm and called 999. An ambulance arrived shortly after 11pm, and paramedics noted observations including low body temperature, fast heart rate and high blood pressure. He left the ambulance before being taken to hospital, and his body was found downstream in Normanton-on-Soar on 14 December, sparking one of Leicestershire Police's largest search operations.

An inquest at Rutland and North Leicestershire Coroner's Court heard that paramedics documented that Sharma "began rambling about the Antichrist and the IRA" and suspected he was intoxicated. Susan Jevons, head of patient safety at East Midlands Ambulance Service, told the court that the crew did not take a second set of observations or carry out a heart trace despite his low temperature and fast heart rate. She said those observations "warranted further asking of questions and then probably a second set of observations later on", and that further assessment options "were not discussed with him and they should have been".

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• 'Our son deserved better': Loughborough university student drowned after leaving ambulance on night outAryan Sharma vanished on a night out in Loughborough town centreLeicestershire Live · 4 Nov, 12:39

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