Coroner Says the Prodigy’s Keith Flint’s Death Cannot Be Ruled Suicide, Closes Investigation

Jazz Monroe
Lack of evidence led coroner to record an open conclusion in the Prodigy singer’s death at age 49

An inquest has declined to rule Keith Flint’s death a suicide, The Guardian reports. “We will never quite know what was going on in his mind on that date,” a coroner said. The Prodigy singer had unspecified amounts of cocaine, alcohol, and codeine in his system when his body was found at his home in March, she said. The week after his death, a coroner confirmed Flint had died by hanging but not whether he intended to take his own life.

Explaining her open conclusion, the coroner said: “I’ve considered suicide. To record that, I would have to have found that, on the balance of probabilities, Mr. Flint formed the idea and took a deliberate action knowing it would result in his death. Having regard to all the circumstances I don’t find that there’s enough evidence for that.” She also found insufficient evidence to rule his death an accident, in which he may have been “larking around and it all went horribly wrong.”

Yesterday (May 7), the Prodigy wrote on Twitter:

Anyone in need of help can reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1–800–273–8255 or SuicidePreventionLifeline.org to chat with someone online.