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Inquest clears mugger of tragedy
A PENSIONER mugged on her doorstep did not die as a result of her injuries, an inquest has found.
Elizabeth Joan Black, who was 90 when she was attacked, suffered the first of two strokes less than a month after her attack and died just three months later from pneumonia.
The wife of a successful theatre producer, she lived in the Vale of Health in Hampstead and had two children.
The mugging, which took place at midday in May last year, left her with a fractured cheekbone and ribs.
At the time her family believed her death may be due to the mugging.
But at Thursday’s inquest, Coroner Andrew Reid concluded that there was “no link between her violent robbery and her eventual death”. Reading from a neurology report Dr Reid said: “(The pathologist) found injuries consistent with the attack but that the stroke was not linked with the attack in May.”
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