Promising Cambridge student Thomas Millward may have died streaking during a dare, an inquest heard

TRAGIC Cambridge fall victim Thomas Millward may have died streaking for a dare, an inquest heard.

The student died from "traumatic" brain injuries after plunging down a stairwell at Girton College where he had taken 1P-LSD with girlfriend, Daniella Mieloszyk.

Pal Tessa Duff, who saw the pair before the fall, said: "If I tried to engage they would partly respond and look at me and look at each other and say, 'This is so strange'."

Thomas' mum, Maisa Millward, yesterday asked Tessa: "Do you think it was possible that he was acting on a dare to do a streak?"

Explaining some rooms overheated, Tessa said: "I honestly don't know what happened... I always assumed it had been to do with that - that he just got hot."

Student Leva Cernyte, 21, said she heard running and laughter outside her second floor room and had seen Thomas and Daniella on that floor.

Leva later found Thomas’s clothes on the second floor. She said: "It was as if someone took their clothes off on the spot and ran off.”

A friend said he may have been trying to "conquer the vending machine".

The dare involved climbing over the side of the banister, on the first floor, then trying to jump onto the top of the vending machine, on the ground floor.

The inquest heard athletic Thomas regularly slid down the banister.

Thomas, 19, took the then legal-high 1P-LSD with Daniella after she sourced it from a pal, who had bought it over the internet.

Describing the effects of the substance, the hearing heard a friend had asked Thomas for a pen after escorting the pair to his room.

She said: "Every time I asked him he would look at me and look at Dani and ask, 'Is this real?'."

Toxicologist Dr Susan Patterson told the inquest Thomas had an LSD-type substance in his system and traces of ecstasy.

Describing the effects of 1P-LSD, she said: "It really does deceive sensory perception but it can also cause delusions and you can become detached from yourself.

“It's possible that you can think you can actually fly, I think that was what was recorded with this drug."

On Monday Daniella, 21, told the inquest jury she and Thomas felt "overwhelmed" by the drug after "naively" underestimating its effects.

The pair took the tabs of highs around 3pm, on March 5 2016. Thomas was found around 7pm.

The engineering student died at 11am the following day in hospital after medics told his family, of Cheltenham, Gloucs, he was brain dead.

Daniella was arrested on suspicion of possession of drugs with intent to supply but later released facing no further action.

The inquest continues.