1/1 A WOMAN who touched many hearts was killed when a large oak tree fell on her car as she drove to visit her daughter in stormy weather, an inquest was told. Flora Margaret Walsh, aged 69, from Verwood, was driving her Ford B-max alone along Verwood Road, near Alderholt, on the morning of Saturday, November 2, 2019, when the tragedy unfolded. She d been on her way to her daughter s Eastleigh home to watch the rugby world cup final which was being broadcast later that day. Witnesses recalled seeing a large tree falling straight onto Mrs Walsh s car, suddenly almost without warning. At Dorset Coroner s Court, Bournemouth Town Hall, an inquest hearing was presided over by coroner Brendan Allen.
1/1 A TERMINALLY ill cancer patient who was mistakenly given chemotherapy doses five times stronger than prescribed died of natural causes, a coroner has ruled. Barbara Curtis, 81, was being treated for acute myeloid leukaemia when the error was made by a pharmacy at Royal Bournemouth Hospital (RBH) in December 2017. She died less than three weeks later, Dorset Coroner s Court was told. Coroner Brendan Allen concluded that Mrs Curtis died of natural causes, contributed to by chemotherapy. The evidence I have heard does not support the proposition that the medication error probably, more than minimally, negligibly or trivially contributed to Mrs Curtis s death, he said.
1/1 A CORONER has issued a stark warning on the dangers of swimming while intoxicated, following an inquest into the death of a man who drowned off the Dorset coast last summer. Moldova-born Vadim Sirghii, aged 26, of Hounslow, Middlesex, had been visiting Man O War beach, Durdle Door, with family and friends when the tragedy unfolded on June 21, last year. The bartender, who worked at The Shard, London, had swum out 25-metres to a rock shortly after arriving at the beach around 4.30pm. His brother Victor Sirghii, who attended the inquest at Dorset Coroner s Court, Bournemouth Town Hall, on Tuesday, May 4, recalled watching Vadim from the shore, as he appeared to get into difficulties after being hit by waves.