A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy died in his bed after a night spent drinking vodka with friends, a Coroner heard.

Anthony Riley, of Brunswick Avenue, Burnley, died after inhaling his stomach contents on the morning of February 15 this year.

Coroner Richard Taylor recorded a verdict of accidental death on Anthony, who was a pupil at St Theodore's High School.

The Coroner heard that Anthony had asked for some money from his mother Ann during the previous week and refused to tell her what it was for.

He summarised the evidence of Anthony's friends, who cannot be named because of a court order, and said it was clear the money had in fact been for a kitty to buy vodka for a party on the Saturday night.

But Anthony and his friends had drunk a quantity of the vodka on the Friday evening instead.

He returned home at 10pm on Friday, admitted to his mother he had been drinking alcopops and was grounded.

The following morning Anthony was sick, complained of a headache and returning to bed.

The family went out to take his brother to a dance class and when they returned, Julian found Anthony dead in the bedroom they shared.

His mother said to her knowledge it was not correct that he had "consumed the odd bottle of alcopops in the street."