A “true gentleman” died after noticing a "persistent" cough began causing him pain.
Brian Howard ran a popular independent bookshop died decades after breathing in asbestos while working as an electrician surrounded by the “dust” without respiratory protection.
Brian Howard, of Runcorn, was admitted to Warrington Hospital on Christmas Eve 2021 after a persistent cough he had lived with for three decades became “continuous and painful”. An inquest at Warrington Coroner’s Court on Thursday heard Brian died on January 1, 2022, aged 82, decades after he retired from his career with industrial giants ICI in Runcorn.
