Hunstanton man died after fall

Norfolk Coroner Jacqueline Lake recorded a verdict of death by natural causes for former agricultural business manager Robin Limb, who died on February 8 this year.

Mr Limb, 62, died in Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital after a fall at home.

The inquest in Norwich on Friday was told that Mr Limb, of the Cliff Parade in Hunstanton, had died of broncho-pneumonia and liver disease caused by alcoholism.

A statement from his wife Wendy had said that her husband was a heavy smoker and drinker and that on the night of his fall she had found him on his computer in the small hours of the morning downstairs.

He had said he was then going to bed but the next thing she knew was that he had fallen on the stairs. She was unable to get him up and for many hours was unable to move him. Eventually she got him to the sofa in the lounge. He was there 24 hours before he agreed to the ambulance being called.

Statements from paramedics said Mr Limb was reluctant to go to hospital but he was eventually persuaded.

Doctors at the QEH decided against putting him on ICU and treated him with anti-biotics and oxygen but he was very frail and he passed away on the ward before his wife could reach him after being alerted.

Mr Limb spent 30 years working for British Sugar, where he was an agricultural business manager, before being made redundant in 2014 and distributing his specialist industry knowledge as an independent agricultural consultant and freelance journalist.