outside because the Roaccutane meant that the sun was hurting his eyes.
"He was a pleasant and outgoing person. He became irritable and eventually committed
suicide."
Liam suffered from what his doctor, Pamela Mangle, described as
"mild acne".
"Liam never showed any sign of depression before going on
Roaccutane," the distraught father said.
Now his father, Liam Snr, wants an international inquiry into the
Roaccutane drug which his son was taking to clear up mild acne on his
neck and shoulders. When we were watching the
television he would want the light switched off and would get very
annoyed if you did not turn off the light."
. He had a great love of
music and played the guitar to a high standard," said the father.
"He also played the drums and was involved with a band with
friends and played with another band in college."
His doctor referred him to a dermatologist who warned him that the
drug caused dry skin and sometimes had the side-effect of causing
headaches, tiredness and mood changes.
"We found out weeks before he died that he was telling his
younger brother Shane to tell his friends that he wasn't in if they
called.
The inquest jury returned a verdict of suicide but ordered that
there should be continued research between the drug and its
side-affects, and that more emphasis should be placed on patient
instruction.
His father said that his formerly sociable son even began shunning
his own friends.
"The first change I noticed was that he became very withdrawn.
He had always been in circulation before that playing the guitar and
socialising," said Mr Grant.
The inquest into the death of the attractive college student heard
yesterday that he had been taking a powerful anti-acne drug at the time
of his suicide.
Gardai had earlier that day discovered the body of a young man
matching Liam Grant's description hanging from a tree near Pine
Forest in Rathfarnham.
"After it he became withdrawn and was subject to
A FATHER last night hit out at the acne wonder drug which he
believes killed his young son.
According to his father, Liam had no reason to take his own life
and had never displayed any tendencies towards suicide before.
American authortities are investigating the drugs possible links
with 12 suicides there.
It now states that the drug can cause depression, psychosis,
suicidal tendencies and suicide.
When he arrived home on Sunday afternoon with is family he found a
note from his son which said that "he did not have any
friends" and that this would be reflected in the turn-out at his
funeral.
Liam, the eldest son, chose not to travel with his parents because
he was feeling "unwell".
"He was taking a course in sound engineering because a lot of
people were getting jobs in that at the time and he wanted to work on
his own sound engineering business."
But it all changed shortly after Liam was prescribed the acne
wonder drug Roaccutane.
"And after his death his friends came up to us and said that
they had not seen Liam in five or six weeks."
His head was covered by a white pillowcase and he was hanging from
a blue rope.
A yellow mountain bike which Mr Grant identified as his son's
was found locked beside the tree as were a number of personal
belongings.
The inquest jury of four men and two women was told that the second
year engineering student at UCD was making plans for the future.
The court heard yesterday that in the past two months the warning
distributed by manufactureres Roche has been changed.
After being prescribed some antibiotics in late 1996 which were of
some benefit, he heard about Roaccutane from friends in college.
His father told the court that he tried to phone his son several
times over the weekend but never got a response.
Liam Grant, 20, was found hanging from a tree in the foothills of
the Dublin mountains last summer.
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"He began to spend an extraordinary amount of time in his room
and did not like coming out.
"He became very irritable.
The Coroner's Court in Dublin heard yesterday that Liam Grant
Snr, his wife Loyola and two sons Michael, 16, and Shane, 12, had
travelled to Tipperary for a weekend break on June 13 last year.
"I remember in May of last year because it was particularly
warm and we were having a barbeque outside
