Woman, 70, died after being upside down for 36 hours

AN elderly woman survived 36 hours hanging upside down from a window only to die from a “cascade of tragic events” two days later.

The tragic details emerged during an inquest yesterday into the death of Patricia Butler, 70, who lived in a bungalow outside Cork city.

The city coroner’s court heard how Ms Butler, who was a very fit and active woman with a keen interest in gardening, discovered she was accidentally locked out of her home on a sunny morning last August.