A RETIRED milkman died after a fall two days after leaving a Southampton hospital, an inquest heard.

Millwyn Tilley, 87, of Moore Crescent, Netley Abbey, fell and broke his hip after answering the intercom to a carer at his sheltered flat on April 5.

He was taken to A&E at Southampton General Hospital and had surgery. two days later. However he developed an acute kidney injury and bronchopneumonia and died on April 22.

He had been previously discharged on April 3 after two weeks' treatment for bronchopneumonia, which saw him treated for two weeks.

He had previously been treated for two weeks in hospital for bronchopneumonia.

Carer Joanne Morse, who found Mr Tilley after his fall, said it was the third time he had tripped over since being discharged.

Senior coroner for central Hampshire, Grahame Short, recorded a verdict of accidental death.

He said the pensioner would not have died if it wasn’t for the fall.

“I find that after the operation itself, which I think went successfully as far as the fracture was repaired, he developed kidney problems,” he said.

“The sequence of events culminated in his death.”

After the inquest Mr Tilley’s son, Glyn 60, said: "He was much loved by his family, the life and soul of the party, and we all miss him.”