An Eastwood bakery worker died from natural causes after two members of his family found him unresponsive on his settee with a blood-soaked bandage on his arm and in the surrounding area. An inquest in Derby, which concluded on Wednesday (February 15) found Wayne Thorpe, 44, died on August 16, 2015, from a kidney infection and a heart condition - just weeks after an accident at the Warburton's factory, Eastwood, where he had worked.
But the medical cause of death was found by a jury to be natural causes with the conclusion recorded as: (1a) "Acute pyelonephritis" (a bacterial infection causing inflammation of the kidneys) and (2) "Myocardial scarring" (the accumulation of fibrous tissue resulting after some form of trauma to the cardiac tissue).
A record of the jury inquest, supplied to Nottinghamshire Live, recorded Mr Thorpe's accident at work after he sustained the injury to his arm. The report reads: "He was taken to hospital and then referred to the burns unit with a friction burn."
