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Man choked to death on bread
A RETIRED kitchen assistant died after choking on a piece of bread, an inquest heard.
Mohammed Toymus, originally from Sylhet in Bangladesh, was found by his wife Husnara Ferdousion on the kitchen floor of his Westbere Road home in West Hampstead in February with a piece of bread in his mouth.
St Pancras Coroner’s Court heard on Tuesday how Mr Toymus, 72, was discovered at 2am and rushed to the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead. He was pronounced dead just over an hour later.
A stroke earlier in his life had left Mr Toymus with problems swallowing and he also suffered from dementia. A post mortem revealed he had undiagnosed prostate cancer.
Although carers looked after him during the day, his family cared for him at night and he was known to wake up and wander around alone, the inquest heard.
Coroner’s officer Lee Gronow – the only witness in court – said: “He went into cardiac arrest when London Ambulance Services arrived. He was taken to Royal Free and pronounced dead at 3.30am.”
Coroner Dr Andrew Reid said Mr Toymus died from “accidentally choking on food in the context of chronic neurological disease”.
He added that carcinoma of the prostate and vascular dementia contributed to his death. |
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