OUT-OF-HOURS doctors who prescribed opiate drugs to an Asperger’s sufferer just days before he died of an overdose have admitted they made mistakes, an inquest heard today.

David Jones died on December 31, 2005, at his home in Belvedere Road, Crystal Palace, after being prescribed controlled drugs by several different doctors within the space of a few days.

And at an inquest held at Bromley Civic Centre, his mother Glennys listened as two of them admitted they made mistakes.

The inquest heard SELDOC’s Dr Emmanuel Bolade had seen Mr Jones who had been complaining of pain from Crohn’s disease.

He gave Mr Jones a prescription eight days before he died for enough Oramorph (morphine solution) to last at least 25 days.

Dr Bolade told the inquest he prescribed it to get the 23-year-old through the Christmas and New Year period.

But he now accepts he should have only given enough to last until Mr Jones’s doctor’s surgery was next open.

He said: “That was abysmally high.

“I feel bad that I gave him so much.

“I gave him that much to tide him over and it was out of compassion but after seeing what happened after that I deeply regret it.”

Dr Bolade says he examined Mr Jones at the emergency doctor service at Dulwich Hospital and that Mr Jones gave him a photocopy of a prescription to show what drugs he was on.

But during cross examination Nick Brown, the solicitor acting on behalf of Miss Jones, accused him of not examining the patient because he had not made any record of his findings.

And he also accused him of accepting a handwritten note from Mr Jones saying what drugs he had been taking rather than a prescription.

Dr Bolade denied both accusations.

The inquest also heard that at around 3.15am on Christmas Day, Mr Jones phoned EMDOC saying he was in pain from Crohn’s disease and the morphine he had been prescribed two days earlier was making him itchy.

A transcript of the conversation between him and Dr Seye Sodipe reveals the doctor was originally reluctant to prescribe any medicines without seeing the patient.

But then Dr Sodipe changed his mind and prescribed him a synthetic opiate called Fentanyl.

During cross examination he denied it was irresponsible to diagnose someone and prescribe opiates over the phone.

But he admitted he should have probed more into why Mr Jones had been taking morphine.

He said: “I should have asked that. I should have thought about that.”

The inquest continues.