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'Gentle giant' died after medication withdrawn, inquest told

  • James Snowden, 21, was a keen rugby player and competitive strongman who in 2019 became the second-youngest person recorded to lift the famous Dinnie Stones.
  • His mother described him as a "gentle giant" and a gifted mathematician, involved with local rugby and Gaelic clubs.
  • An inquest heard he was under NHS mental health care and had begun a planned withdrawal from the antipsychotic sulpiride weeks before his death.
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