A GYM owner was found dead on Valentine’s Day after taking a cocktail of drugs following a weekend of binge drinking.

Luciano Magari was discovered in his bed, at a friend’s home in West Street, Farnworth, on February 14.

The 49-year-old businessman — who owned roofing company Ultra Point, co-owned Future Fitness Gym, in Harroby Street, in Farnworth, and used to run the Park Inn pub in Egerton Street — was three times over the drink-drive limit.

He had traces of morphine, cocaine, diazepam and a strong painkiller called oxycodone in his system.

Mr Magari, who had three children, had moved out of the Church Road home he shared with his partner of 16 years, Stacey Jones, and their six-year-old daughter just days before his death, while he tried to resolve his alcohol problem.

At Bolton Coroner’s Court, Ms Jones said alcohol had only become a problem in the past six months.

“He was coming in at one or 2am, and I have got a little girl upstairs who has to get up for school, and it wasn’t an ideal situation for a little girl to see her dad in that state.

“I asked him to go and stay in a hotel for a few nights, just while I got a good night’s sleep,” she said.

The couple discussed Mr Magari’s drink problem, and he had gone to the Royal Bolton Hospital for help on January 31, and had attended a session with the Addiction Dependency Solution team on February 3.

But he went on a twoday binge-drinking session in Farnworth the following weekend, which culminated in his death.

Ms Jones said Mr Magari was a hard worker who would never miss a day’s work, so when he failed to show up at the gym she became concerned and contacted his friend, who then discovered his body.

She said the couple had been planning a holiday to Dubai to celebrate his 50th birthday and Mr Magari had been looking forward to the future.

Deputy coroner Alan Walsh recorded a narrative verdict, saying: “Mr Magari died as a consequence of the mixture of morphine, oxycodone, diazepam and cocaine, having consumed a substantial quantity of alcohol.

“From the evidence I have heard, Mr Magari was a very likeable, sociable and hard working man.

“It is important that people are warned that there are some drugs in our society that can have the most devastating consequences.”

After the inquest, Ms Jones paid tribute to Mr Magari and said: “He wasn’t a drug taker or an alcoholic.

“ He was a hard worker and he was a very loving man, who loved his family very much and he was a wonderful partner for the last 16 years.”