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1 	1 	RUGBY FLASHER KILLED IN RAILINGS PLUNGE

Apr 15 2005

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By Paula Murray

A DRUNKEN flasher died when he tripped over his trousers and fell from a
first-floor window on to spiked railings.

Rugby player Gareth Mason, 22, bled to death after suffering 15 wounds
to his neck and chest when a drunken stunt went wrong.

Pal Katie Stansby, 21, told how they had just returned to his flat from
a pub crawl when the tragedy happened. Gareth had dropped his trousers
and stood in the window shouting: 'Who wants some of this?'.

She said: 'He said it as a joke. He said it out of the window but there
was no one out there.

'His trousers and pants were around his ankles and he could not move. He
bent forward and went out of the window. He put both of his hands up,
opened palms and tried to stop himself but he missed the window and fell
through.

An inquest heard Gareth was found to have been'heavily intoxicated',
with a blood-alcohol level four times the drink-drive limit.

Flatmate David Wilson said Gareth, of Aberystwyth, west Wales, had tried
the stunt before.

He admitted that people in the house 'occasionally bared their bottoms'
to people out of their window.

Recording a verdict of misadventure, coroner Peter Brunton said: 'What
would otherwise have been a prank has taken a turn and resulted in death.

'It's not for me or anyone else to criticise. It's doubly tragic because
of the youth of the deceased.'

Later, Gareth's father Tony said: 'I want to warn young people about the
dangers of binge drinking