The Bulgarian model who was with Stephen Gately on the night of his death has revealed details of the last hours to the Sunday Mirror paper.

In the article Georgi Dochev, 25, said he met the couple in a Majorcan gay club before heading back to their apartment, where the three men spent the night.

Dochev told of how he regrets that he didn’t try to wake the Gately, who was asleep on the living room couch with partner Andy Cowles.

He is quoted as saying “I got up and looked into the living room and saw Stephen and Andy still lying there and I just thought, 'it's not my house, I can't answer the door'. I don't know if Stephen was already dead. Of course I think about what might have happened if I had tried to wake them."

He goes on to describe their panic after they discovered something was wrong as they tried to wake Gately later in the day.

He added, “Andy touched him and said gently, 'baby, baby'. But there was no reaction. Then he picked him up and we noticed there was a yellowish liquid around his mouth and on the sofa where he had been lying. But it was impossible to give him first aid. His body was stiff and his jaw was rigid.”

Dochev had at this point called the emergency services and the police. Gately was buried at an emotional ceremony in Dublin a week later.

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