A POLICEMAN threatened a pensioner with prosecution as the badly injured 74-year-old lay dying in intensive care after a car smash, an inquest was told.
Deputy Gloucestershire coroner David Dooley critised PC Philip Rees fro an 'inapporopriate interview' with Patrick Harris, who was wearing an oxygen mask as he lay in pain from his internal injuries.
The pensioner, from Cinderford, had crashed into a tree two days earlier and was in a 'precarious' medical state because of severe heart disease as well as his injuries.
Patrick's sister Shirley lived with him for the last 56 years in a house built by their father in the 1950s.
After the inquest, she said: "It is terrible to think of my brother being put under that pressure when he was badly injured and his hear was in a shocking state."
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