Grandad died after fall in bathroom (From Warrington Guardian)

Grandad died after fall in bathroom

A PENSIONER died from a brain haemorrhage a month after falling and hitting his head on his bathroom floor.

Retired painter and decorator Kenneth Pomfrett, aged 66, of Knutsford Road, Latchford, had suffered from ill health.

His wife, Olga, 61, told an inquest at Warrington coroner's court that he was 'crippled with arthritis' and suffered dizzy spells, which sometimes caused him to fall.

Mrs Pomfrett told the court that a month before his death, her husband fell in the bathroom and hit his head.

He was taken to A and E at Warrington Hospital but, after waiting two hours, decided to return home.

She said that on the day he died he had woken at 5am and asked her to get a doctor, saying he had been sick and had a 'splitting head'.

As she called an ambulance her husband collapsed on the bathroom floor.

He was taken to Warrington Hospital and pronounced dead at 9am.

Dr Dillshad Sharif, consultant pathologist at Warrington, said Mr Pomfrett had suffered two bleeds on his brain.

Deputy coroner for Cheshire, Janet Napier, recorded a verdict of accidental death reasoning that the haemorrhage occurred subsequent to a trauma which occurred when he fell.