Drug dealer who called himself a pharmacist jailed after death of Cambridge University student Keshava Iyengar

A drug dealer arrested after the death of a Cambridge University student has been jailed for four-and-a-half years. Police tracked down and detained Benjamin Brown after Keshava Iyengar, 20, was found dead in a friend’s room at the university’s Trinity College in March 2021. An inquest found that the death of Mr Iyengar, who had taken an overdose of anti-anxiety medication, was drug-related.

Cambridgeshire[1] Police said it was not possible to prove that Brown’s actions caused the death of Mr Iyengar, but he was sentenced for supplying and possessing drugs. An investigation had uncovered messages on Mr Iyengar’s phone from a drug dealer called “Lean Xan Man” – later identified by police as 32-year-old Brown. He was a self-proclaimed “pharmacist” selling a range of prescription-only drugs on Instagram and Snapchat.

Brown from Guildford, Surrey, was arrested in July 2021.

A search of his home uncovered drugs, more than GBP15,000 in cash and labels featuring his “business logo”, according to Cambridgeshire Police.