Best man drowned at stag yacht party as they drank the first beer

A City financier drowned when ‘horseplay went tragically wrong’ at a stag party before the guests had drunk the first beer, an inquest heard. Nishanthan Gnanathas, 31, who was the best man, hit his head on. a wire balustrade when he was when he was pushed from a yacht by Andre van Eck into Lisbon’s River Tagus. He was unconscious when he hit the water and never resurfaced, Westminster Coroner’s Court heard. Mr Gnanathas’s family had to wait an agonising…