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His flatmate, Michael Caine, took the role instead and it launched his career.

The original disciplinary panel rejected a claim by Mr Bennett's former flatmate Sheila Gomes that he had used cannabis daily before breakfast.

"You don't have to be connected with everyone all the time," said his flatmate Hannah Steiner, 23.

Yet when I went away to Manchester to study law in 2009 with a brand new group of flatmates, that feeling of being on the edge started creeping in again.

Mr Tao said his adventure had motivated one of his flatmates, who is also Chinese, to attempt the same trip.