Pensioner died after suffering fall

Peter Berry, 77, of Reginald Road, was with his wife Phyllis when he tripped on a kerb stone.

Last Wednesday’s inquest heard that the pensioner suffered from seizures every few months, which doctors thought was epilepsy.

He was then fitted with a pacemaker in March last year and given warfarin, a drug which thins the blood and stops it clotting.

Mrs Berry, who was married to her husband for 53 years, said Mr Berry had been ill with a chest infection from the beginning of this year until August and was prescribed antibiotics.

She said her husband grazed his knee and elbow and broke his glasses following his fall.

But the couple were able to holiday in Whitby in Yorkshire for five days from September 6.

Mrs Berry said: “He never complained about ill health while we were away.”

The inquest heard that Mr Berry fell out of bed while on holiday.

He was sick and the out-of-hours doctor had to be called the day after the couple returned to Bexhill.

Mr Berry also complained about having a ‘massive, thumping headache’.

He was taken to the Conquest Hospital but died on September 14.

Dr Mark Boxer, Conquest pathologist, said: “There must have been a slow bleed on Mr Berry’s brain for nine days then a rapid one.”

Coroner Alan Craze recorded a verdict of accidental death.