Darren Bray, 29, and father of three from Barry in South Wales while having fun with his friends choked to death after rolling a McDonald's burger into a ball, and thrusting it inside his mouth. Darren while enjoying a night out with his friends said "Watch this" before trying to eat the ball, causing him to choke to death.
Sam Bisgrove who was with him at the night of the sad incident said;
He picked up the burger and rolled it in half and then said 'watch this', before putting the whole burger into his mouth. I could see him trying to cough it up and he was making horrible coughing noises.
I tried to hit his back to help him clear his airway.
Paramedics came to the scene to help him out, but it was too late as they were unable to restart his heart and pronounced him dead at the scene. Dr Rhiannon Trefor told the Cardiff Coroner's Court that Darren died due to the blockage to his airways.
When we did an internal examination there was a eight by five centremetre ball of food stuck at the back of his neck. Darren would not have been able to breath from that breath with that in his airway.
Death would have followed quite quickly from a choking of this nature.
The doctor also said that Darren was half time the legal drink drive limit, but that could ot have affected the judgement.