An intern has died after allegedly working for 72 hours straight during his placement at the London offices of an American bank.

Moritz Erhardt, 21, was found collapsed in his flat after failing to arrive at work at the investment banking division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Mary Hassell, the coroner for Tower Hamlets, is awaiting the results of post-mortem tests before deciding whether to open a formal inquest into his death. Scotland Yard said that the death was “not suspicious”.

Mr Erhardt was in the sixth week of a seven-week pre-graduate programme when he collapsed in the shower of his apartment on Thursday last week.

He was pronounced dead at Claredale House, student accommodation used by City interns during the summer, in Bethnal