A New Zealand utility company that cut off power to the home of a woman connected to an electric oxygen pump, leading to her death, insisted today it was not aware she was dependent on the machine.

A NEW ZEALAND mother who needed an electric oxygen pump to breathe died after an energy company cut the power to her home due to an unpaid bill, her family said.

A New Zealand mother who needed an electric oxygen pump to breathe died after an energy company cut the power to her home due to an unpaid bill, her family claimed today.