A man 'acquiring' lead plunged to his death through the roof of a derelict mill, an inquest heard. Christopher Paxford suffered a fractured skull after falling from the building in Bolton and died 'shortly afterwards'.
The 37-year-old was found surrounded by broken glass, face down on a concrete floor inside the mill by his friend and flatmate Daniel Barnes. It's thought he had fallen through a skylight.
The inquest at Bolton coroners court heard that Mr Paxford, an unemployed father-of-one, was known to make money by 'weighing in' scrap metal he 'obtained' from derelict buildings. He left his one-bed flat on Haydock Street in Bolton in the early hours of Saturday, April 30 this year, telling Mr Barnes he was going to 'Bank Street' to collect scrap metal.
