Pensioner ‘died in fire caused by cigarette’

A PENSIONER whose home was overrun with rubbish died in a fire caused by her heavy smoking, an inquest heard yesterday.

Spinster Patricia Agnew, 65, was found dead at the house where she lived alone in Bangor, Co Down.

The hearing into her death in August 2002 was told how she was a proudly independent woman who spurned all offers of help.