Man Slits His Own Throat in Boots Store and Dies After Staff ‘Refuse to Give him Methadone’

A man has died after walking into a Boots store and slitting his throat in front of horrified shoppers.

Paramedics rushed to the branch but the 50-year-old could not be saved and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The incident occurred shortly after the Boots store in Newcastle-under-Lyme opened at 9am yesterday.

Shoppers who witnessed the terrifying incident say the man had wandered into the store demanding methadone but was refused the drug.

The man, who was from Stoke-on-Trent, then slit his own throat.

One woman said: ‘A woman came running out of the store screaming and carrying a little baby. She was shouting ‘he’s just done it in front of me’.

‘When the police arrived, they swarmed straight around the store and went inside. Someone came outside and told us a man had come in asking for methadone but was not allowed to have the drug.

Police cordoned off the High Street store following the incident but it has since reopened.