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Homeless man dies after smoking Spice and collapsing outside Parliament

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A homeless man has died after collapsing outside the entrance to the Houses of Parliament.

Police officers gave Gyula Remes, 43, first aid outside Westminster Underground station at about 11pm last night.

He was taken to hospital, where he sadly died early this morning.

Floral tributes lay outside the Parliament entrance near Westminster underground station, where homeless man known as Gyula Remes, was found dying outside the entrance to the Houses of Parliament. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday December 19, 2018. British Transport Police were called to Westminster Underground station at about 11pm on December 18 and besides giving him first aid, Mr Remes died at a Central London hospital in the early hours of December 19. See PA story POLICE Homeless. Photo credit should read: Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe/PA Wire

Floral tributes have been left outside the Parliament entrance near Westminster underground station (Picture: PA)

Floral tributes lay outside the Parliament entrance near Westminster underground station, where homeless man known as Gyula Remes, was found dying outside the entrance to the Houses of Parliament. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday December 19, 2018. British Transport Police were called to Westminster Underground station at about 11pm on December 18 and besides giving him first aid, Mr Remes died at a Central London hospital in the early hours of December 19. See PA story POLICE Homeless. Photo credit should read: Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe/PA Wire

Some have left cans of Stella at the shrine for the homeless man (Picture: PA)

MPs were told about the death by Labour frontbencher Sir Keir Starmer, who said: Im given to understand that tragically one of those sleeping just outside the entrance and exit to this place died in the last 24 hours or so.

According to his friend Gabor Kasza, 22, Gyula had been drinking and was given a cigarette he suspects was laced with the synthetic drug spice.

He was drinking, very heavily, and someone gave him some kind of cigarette which he smoked, he said.

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He said he was going to lie down and then when I came back a few hours later, he was all blue. We couldnt resuscitate him.

It was definitely spice.

Homeless Gabor Kasza, 22, friend of Gyula Remes, who was found dying outside the entrance to the Houses of Parliament on December 18, has said the homeless man had been drinking that night and had been given a cigarette, which he suspected had been laced with the synthetic drug spice. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday December 19, 2018. British Transport Police were called to Westminster Underground station at about 11pm and besides giving him first aid, Mr Remes died at a Central London hospital in the early hours of December 19. See PA story POLICE Homeless. Photo credit should read: Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe/PA Wire

Homeless Gabor Kasza, 22, said his friend had smoked Spice (Picture: PA)

Tributes are left outside the Parliament entrance near Westminster underground station, where homeless man known as Gyula Remes, was found dying outside the entrance to the Houses of Parliament. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday December 19, 2018. British Transport Police were called to Westminster Underground station at about 11pm on December 18 and besides giving him first aid, Mr Remes died at a Central London hospital in the early hours of December 19. See PA story POLICE Homeless. Photo credit should read: Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe/PA Wire

Gyula Remes, 43, died in hospital this morning (Picture: PA)

The Palace of Westminster, site of the Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom in London.

He died less than a week before Christmas (Picture: Getty)

Gabor, who is also homeless, met Gyula a few months ago at the homelessness charity The Connection, where they formed a close friendship due to their shared Hungarian heritage.

Gabor said his friend had recently begun work as a chefs assistant and was well known among the homeless community in Westminster.

He had a job and he was going to The Connection but they wouldnt let him in. They kept telling him “the hostels are full, the hostels are full”, he continued.

Gabor said Gyula was due to receive his first pay cheque this week which he hoped would help him get off the streets for good.

He was drinking heavily because he had just got a job and he was all happy that he wasnt going to be homeless anymore, he said.

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A shrine, consisting of five bunches of flowers, four cans of beer, six mince pies, a candle and an empty bottle of wine, has been left in the underpass of exit three at the station.

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A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: At around 23.30 on December 18 we were alerted by officers from British Transport Police to a man collapsed in an underpass near to Westminster Underground station.

First aid was administered by the BTP officers and the man was taken to a central London hospital, where he died in the early hours of December 19.

The death is not being treated as suspicious by the police.

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