A university student with a grave head injury died after medics wrongly assumed he was unconscious because he was drunk, an inquest heard.

Maria Voisin, senior coroner for Avon, said the death of 22-year-old Alex Green was "contributed to by neglect" by hospital staff.

Mr Green, an economics student at the University of Bath, was discovered unconscious at a bus stop in the city in the early hours of September 30 2017.

Both paramedics and doctors at the Royal United Hospital failed to diagnose a "spectacular" internal head injury.

His fractured skull was only spotted when Mr Green suffered a respiratory arrest 10 hours after being admitted to the hospital.

The student was transferred to Southmead Hospital in Bristol, but died there three days later.

Following a five-day inquest at Avon Coroner's Court, Ms Voisin found a number of gross failures that "caused or significantly contributed to Alex's death".

She concluded that the death of Mr Green, from East Molesey, Surrey, was an "accident contributed to by neglect".

"There was an assumption by everyone managing Alex that he had been intoxicated when in fact, he had a significant head injury," Ms Voisin said.

The coroner identified five failings with Mr Green's care, including the assumption that his reduced consciousness was due to intoxication with "no corroborating evidence".