Coroner probes asbestos link to Oldbury man's death

Jan 20 2009 by Steve Bradley, Birmingham Mail

A MIDLAND man who died at home last week had a history of working with asbestos, an inquest heard.

Black Country coroner Robin Balmain adjourned the inquest into the death on January 8 of 67-year-old carpenter and builder Roger Partridge, of Pitfields Road, Oldbury, until he had received pathology reports.