A PENSIONER starved to death in her own home because of a catalogue of errors that allowed her to slip through the net.
Cheshire coroner Nicholas Rheinberg has ordered a multi agency inquiry into the circumstances that allowed 79-year-old Ivy Allen to starve to death in her own home.
At an inquest held at Warrington Coroners Court on Thursday, her death was described as 'a case study in unlikely things going wrong'.
The court heard how failings by a number of individual agencies resulted in the death of the mum of ten.
Consultant pathologist at Warrington Hospital Dr Mohammed Al Jafari told how Mrs Allen died from gross malnutrition and weighed less than five stone.
But Mr Rheinberg retuned a verdict of death by natural causes contributed to by neglect including self-neglect.
For more on this story plus an indepth look at the factors that culminated in the tragic death of Ivy Allen see Thursday's Warrington Guardian.
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