A PENSIONER suffering from Parkinson’s disease suffocated to death after becoming trapped at his home in Nefyn, an inquest heard.

Michael Kenneth Jones, originally from Derbyshire, died at his holiday home at Tai’r Lôn, which he owned with his wife, Jennifer Jones, on 19 July this year.

At an inquest held into the 74-year-old’s death in Caernarfon, Mrs Jones said that she found her husband the following morning in one of the bedrooms at their home.

She said: “Even though he had been suffering with the disease for the last 20 years, he was a fighter and very determined to still carry out jobs around the house. We’d spend a lot of time at our home in Nefyn, he loved it there.

“Even though he was becoming more frail and suffered from a lot of falls, it still didn’t stop him thinking he could do everything himself.

“The night before he died I left him watching television, I assumed he would have come to bed soon after, but when I woke up in the morning, he wasn’t there.

“I looked all around the house for him, even outside, but as I went round to check again I looked in one of the rooms and I saw a shrunken figure by the bed.”

The court heard how Mr Jones had gone into the room at some point during the evening or early hours of the morning to change the bed castors as his tool kit was found nearby.

“I’m assuming he must have gone up to the room to fix the castors on the bed and somehow managed to slip and become trapped between the bed and the wall.

“It doesn’t surprise me at all that he was trying to change the castors on the bed, as I said he always thought he was still able to do all the jobs around the house,” added Mrs Jones.

Pathologist Dr Mark Lord carried out a post-mortem examination on 21 July this year and recorded a cause of death as postural asphyxia.

He said: “Mr Jones couldn’t get out of the awkward position he was in between the bed and the wall which led to him suffocating.”

North west Wales senior coroner, Dewi Pritchard, recorded Mr Jones’ death as accidental.

“From the evidence I have received I believe while Mr Jones was removing the castors he slipped between the bed and wall and got himself into a very difficult position.

“Due to him suffering from Parkinson’s this would have been a very hard for him to get out of which led to him suffocating.”