tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14018366.post-90680925226216227902008-02-28T14:31:00.001Z2008-02-28T14:34:31.182Z<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_3I_wJNG-F4g/R8bF-yLj2BI/AAAAAAAAACU/tMa7gzwCAHo/s1600-h/GarethHughes.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172038904494413842" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_3I_wJNG-F4g/R8bF-yLj2BI/AAAAAAAAACU/tMa7gzwCAHo/s320/GarethHughes.jpg" border="0" /></a>Feb 28 2008<br /><br /><br />A YOUNG man has died after sniffing lighter fuel in a tragic experiment which went wrong.<br />Gareth William Watkin Hughes, 23, had been sniffing the fuel in the back of a friend’s car near Bangor.<br />To their horror, he stopped breathing and collapsed.<br />His friends called for an ambulance which rushed him to Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor.<br />Doctors put him on a life support machine but it was too late to save him.<br />Gareth, a mechanic of Cil Isaf, Caernarfon, known to his friends as Gags, died later that night, last Saturday.<br />His family said yesterday that they wished to warn others of the dangers of sniffing lighter fuel.<br />Gareth, one of seven siblings, had gone out with friends, who, it is believed, were experimenting with the lighter fuel in a friend’s car at Glasinfryn near Bangor.<br />Gareth’s fiancée, Ceri Roberts, 18, of Yr Hendre, Caernarfon, said she first knew something was wrong when she received a phone call from one of his friends telling her to go to hospital.<br />She told the Daily Post: “We don’t know much at the moment but believe he’d taken lighter fuel.<br />“He’d gone with a mate to see one of their other friends.<br />“One of his friends phoned me to tell me to go to casualty.<br />“He was a lovely young man and liked going out with his friends.<br />“He was great with kids – his nephews and niece – and they adored him.<br />“When we got engaged Gareth said he’d marry me one day.<br />“We had planned on having children.”<br />The couple had been together for four years.<br />One of Gareth’s sisters, Emma Hughes, 26, from Hiraul, Bangor, said: “Unfortunately Gareth and his friends were playing around with lighter fuel – with tragic consequences for him.<br />“It was the first time he’d ever done it.<br />“He stopped breathing. His friend phoned for an ambulance.<br />“He collapsed and was put on a life-support machine but his heart wasn’t working.<br />“We want to warn people about the dangers of experimenting or playing with lighter fuel.<br />“We hope this will be a lesson for others.<br />“It was a terrible and unexpected shock.<br />“An inquest is going to be held into what was a tragic accident. From what we know, the post-mortem has not yet been concluded.”<br />Emma added: “He was easy-going and always had a smile on his face. He always wore a baseball hat.<br />“He liked messing about with and fixing cars. His other interests were fishing and playing golf.”<br />Gareth worked as a mechanic at Vixen Steels, Llanberis.<br />He had been brought up in Dyffryn Nantlle and attended Ysgol Talysarn and Ysgol Baladeulyn before the family moved to Caernarfon and he went to Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen.<br />Since the tragedy his friends have painted “In loving memory” on the side of his souped-up Nova car.<br />A North Wales police spokeswoman yesterday confirmed that there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding Gareth Hughes’s death and the coroner had been informed.<br /><br />by Hywel Trewyn, <a href="http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2008/02/28/lighter-fumes-kill-caernarfon-23-yr-old-55578-20533492/">Daily Post </a>Re-Solvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00312343397233922086noreply@blogger.com