Isaac Richardson died after taking part in the internet drinking game NekNominate (Picture: Facebook)

A 20-year-old hostel worker has become the first Briton to die as a result of a lethal NekNomination dare.

Isaac Richardson, who grew up in Essex but had recently moved to London, reportedly downed a deadly cocktail of vodka, lager, whisky and wine telling friends he wanted to ‘outdo’ everyone.

Mr Richardson is said to have taken part in the game at The O’Connors hostel in Woolwich, south-east London, where he lived and worked as a receptionist.

According to the MailOnline, the former Colchester Royal Grammar School pupil told a friend he was dared to drink ‘something messed up’.




He died in the early hours of yesterday morning after mixing an entire bottle of white wine with a quarter bottle of whisky, a small bottle of vodka and a can of lager.

Mr Richardson worked at the hostel above O’Connors pub in Woolwich (Picture: Google)

NekNomination is an online craze in which participants film themselves drinking various amounts and types of alcohol – or doing questionable stunts – before nominating someone else to continue the chain.

‘He [Mr Richardson] told me other people were putting Listerine and toothpaste into their drinks but he said he just wanted to mix loads of alcohol and down it,’ his friend, Daniel Lee, 30, said.

‘He said, “I want to outdo people; I want to do something that nobody has ever done”.’

Colleague Tobi Obiwale, 35, who filmed the incident, said after Mr Richardson drank the pint-and-a-half of alcohol he began vomiting and within two minutes had collapsed.

The Mirror quotes a Metropolitan Police spokesman as saying: ‘Police were called by hospital staff at 1.30am on Sunday to a 20-year-old man who died in hospital after being admitted. The death is not being treated as suspicious.’

Mr Richardson’s death follows that of a teenager and a 22-year-old, both from Ireland, who are believed to have died as a result of playing the ‘game’.