A "wonderful dad" remembered as a “true gentleman” drowned accidentally in a pond in his back garden, an inquest heard.
Colin Parr, 60, was found dead at home on Whickham Close in Upton Rocks, Widnes, by his wife Sharon on Saturday, January 29, as she returned home from a night staying at her daughter’s house. An inquest at Warrington Coroner’s Court on Tuesday heard Colin was submerged in the pond with his foot tangled in a mesh web covering.
Scratch marks showed where he had struggled to pull himself out. The inquest heard he had been home alone and “pottering” about and relaxing in his garden the evening before, January 28.
