A man found dead in an Oxford alleyway died two days after being released from Bullingdon Prison.

Blaine Dransfield, 27, of Marsh Gibbon, left the Bicester prison on January 10. He died in Botley on January 12.

Coroner Darren Salter gave a verdict of death by alcohol and drug abuse at Oxfordshire Coroner’s Court yesterday.

Mr Dransfield, who was unemployed, was found by a resident in Nursery Close, Botley, at 2.40pm.