An elderly man, 86, died after spilling a pot of boiling water over himself that had been heating up on a stove in his kitchen, an inquest has heard.
John Roche's wife told Dublin District Coroner’s Court how she found him lying on the kitchen floor in a pool of the boiling water, reported the Irish Mirror.
The 86-year-old died two weeks later at St James’s Hospital in Dublin on December 29, 2019.
