A DETERMINED dad has vowed to continue his two year battle to discover the facts behind his adopted son's drugs related death in a Glasgow flat.

Taxi driver Raymond Gent is convinced that 27-year-old Darren was murdered but claims his efforts to get to the truth have been thwarted at every turn.

" I just keep running into dead-ends and nobody seems interested what happened up there two years ago," said Mr Gent, of St Aidan's Close, Blackburn.

"It has haunted me every day since and I will not rest until I have got to the bottom of this.

Darren was found kneeling on the floor with his hands behind his head and his dad is convinced Darren had been protecting himself. He believes that someone else injected Darren with the fatal dose of heroin.

"Nobody seems interested," said Mr Gent, who went to Glasgow to try and find out more about Darren's death.

"The police up there just weren't bothered."

Home Secretary and Blackburn MP Jack Straw agreed to look into the case but has failed to cast any light on the mystery.

Mr Straw said: "I have investigated the case very thoroughly. Whilst I have every sympathy with the family, unless there is any new evidence which I have not seen, I am afraid I cannot take matters any further."

"A lot of letters have been written and phone calls made but nothing has come of it," said Mr Gent.

An inquest was held in Blackburn after which coroner Michael Singleton recorded an open verdict.

He criticised the information provided by the Scottish police and said the statements raised more questions than they provided answers. Mr Singleton said he was not entirely satisfied as to how Darren had died and said his verdict would leave it open for the inquest to be reopened should further information come to light.

The inquest heard a statement from self-confessed alcoholic Ronnie Kirkwood who had been lodging with Darren on Hamilton Hill Road.

He discovered the body on May 16 but did not report it to the police until the following day.

"What happened before Darren died? What happened in that room? Why did this man go drinking instead of reporting what he had found? The police do not seem to have even tried to answer any of these questions," said Mr Gent.

"We are talking about a man's life and surely that has got to be worth more than a passing glance.

"If he had committed suicide I could accept it and let it go," added Mr Gent.

"But I believe someone held him down and stuck a needle in him and I will do whatever it takes to discover the truth."