A RETIRED warehouse worker, who was born in Belfast, died of natural causes on New Year’s Day, an inquest heard.

Dementia sufferer William McIldoon, 91, lived at Tendring Rest Home, Totton, but his health gradually declined last December.

Senior central and southern Hampshire coroner Grahame Short ruled that the cause of death of the widower was multi-organ failure, senile dementia and old age.