A WELDER collapsed after suffering a massive brain haemorrhage at his Blackburn home.
An inquest heard that Norman Whalley, 48, was found in the bathroom at his home in St Annes Close.
But Mr Whalley was dead on arrival at Royal Blackburn Hospital.
A post-mortem exam-ination on Mr Whalley showed there was exte-nsive evidence of bleeding in the brain.
The medical cause of death was given as a spontaneous pontine hae-morrhage.
Recording a natural causes verdict, coroner Michael Singleton said that Mr Whalley had a "significant bleed" into the brain.
That bleeding was so severe that to fly him by air ambulance to the neurosurgical unit in Preston "would have been a fruitless exercise," said Mr Singleton.
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