A severely disabled man died after he became trapped and suffocated in a hoist system designed to help him move around his home, a Newport coroner's inquest heard yesterday.
Coroner David Bowen said he would be writing to the City Council that installed the hoist urging it to issue emergency call buttons to disabled people using such systems without carers.
The inquest heard that Michael Powell, 55, of Pontfaen Road, Newport, lost the use of his legs in a speedway accident in the 70s. His brother, Nicholas, told the court that Mr Powell was fiercely independent and the hoists were installed in the bedroom and bathroom of his home by Newport City Council in 2000. He said he found him hanging in the hoist in his bedroom on January 21 last year.
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