A "brilliant" student who suffered from alcoholism was found dead in his Finnish apartment, an inquest heard today.

Charles Rodrigues, 33, of Deal Road, Tooting, was studying for a masters in Economics at a university in Finland while battling with alcohol dependency.

He was found curled up on the floor of his student flat on June 16 last year by a chimney sweep who had come to clean the air conditioning.

The flat was littered with around 100 empty beer cans and a bottle of spirits.

His body was starting to decompose and it is thought he had been dead for more than two weeks.

Westminster Coroner's Court heard today he was a former patient at the Priory Hospital and was prescribed medication for alcohol abstinence in 2008.

He moved to study in Finland after struggling to get a job in London, with nine months left till the end of his course.

Coroner Dr Fiona Wilcox recorded a cause of death of natural causes, related to alcoholism.

She said: "I give my sympathy to his family. Not only did he die so young, but he died very far away from you."

His father Godfrey Rodrigues said: "He was a brilliant boy, an entrepreneur, he was full of ideas and wanted to invent things."