An entirely natural undiagnosed heart defect that could've happened to any one at any time, very sadly.
The barely thinly veiled sniff of "suspicion" was via an odious Daily Mail columnist, who neither a pathologist nor there herself, decided upon herself that as Stephen was gay - shock horror- and had been out that evening to a club and then allowed a member of the same sex to crash over, she decided to imply as if a mass drug fuelled gay orgy had taken place and his death must surely be misadventure and drug related.
At inquest, it was found he didn't have any drugs in his system, no orgy had taken place as suggested and that it was entirely natural albeit tragically young.
Boyzone boys 'waked him' in the traditional Irish manner back home in Ireland.
They stayed up awake all night alongside his coffin in the church the night before his funeral, talking, reminiscing and sharing whisky.
I don't have much time for the band tbh and can't stand their music, but they were utterly devastated by the death of their band mate whom they felt as close as brothers to.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp....mily-hurt-by-wild-drugs-rumours-28525017.html
This article was the original stance by the family after findings of the autopsy.
Then his You get brother asked to re open case a few years later in dispute with Stephen's husband over final will & testament distribution.