Overview
- Prince Abdullah bin Fahad was found unresponsive by a cleaner in his locked Marriott Hotel Kensington room and was pronounced dead on November 25, 2025.
- Toxicology presented at the inquest showed a blood alcohol concentration of 222 mg per 100 ml, potentially fatal levels of gamma‑hydroxybutyrate (GHB), traces of cannabis and recreational alprazolam alongside other prescribed anti‑anxiety medicines.
- Assistant Coroner Jean Harkin recorded a verdict of death by misadventure with the medical cause listed as multi‑drug ingestion and she found no evidence of suicide or third‑party involvement.
- Evidence to the court showed the prince had undergone medically supervised detox at the Priory Clinic and further rehabilitation at Rainford Hall in 2025, where clinicians said he engaged with treatment and was not judged at immediate risk of self‑harm before discharge.
- Medical witnesses told the inquest that combining high levels of alcohol with GHB and benzodiazepine‑type drugs greatly raises the risk of respiratory failure, coma and cardiac arrest, and the Saudi Royal Court later confirmed his death and funeral prayers in Riyadh.