Foul play not involved in death of Cork woman

THE results of a postmortem has indicated that foul play was not involved in the strangulation of an elderly psychiatric patient.

It appears that the woman accidentally strangled herself with the flex of a television at the psychiatric hospital in Co Cork.

The woman, believed to be in her 70s and originally from the north Cork area, was found by staff at St Stephen’s Hospital at Sarsfield’s Court in Glanmire last Sunday.