From the archive, 8 July 1969: Jones drowned while 'drunk and drugged'

Originally published in the Guardian on 8 July 1969Brian Jones, the former Rolling Stone, drowned in the swimming pool of his farmhouse in Sussex "while under the influence of alcohol and drugs," a coroner said yesterday. The East Sussex coroner, Dr Angus Sommerville, recorded death by misadventure.Miss Janet Lawson, a state-registered nurse and a friend of Jones, said she knew him through her friend, Mr Frank Thorogood, a builder who was modernising Jones's farm. At 10 30 on the night he drowne...

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