Needle pierced brain of upholsterer

A man with 40 years experience re-upholstering furniture died after a ‘giant sewing needle’ pierced his brain through his eye.

Brian Pimley, 61, of Dublin Road, Tyrrellspass, Co Westmeath, died after a foot-long needle he used as part of his work pierced through his brain to the back of his head on April 8, 2014.

“He was fixing a spring on a chair, he was using a long thin needle to remove staples from the chair,” his wife Helen Pimley said.