Hospital alarm system silenced at time patient died after bed went on fire due to lit cigarette

Inquest heard packet of cigarettes and a cigarette lighter were found at the scene where there had also been an oxygen cylinder

Elderly patient at St Luke's Hospital had suffered severe burns to 49% of his body with the worst affected areas being his limbs, buttocks, lower chest area and abdomen.

An inquest had heard a fire alarm system had been silenced at a hospital in Dublin at a time a patient suffered fatal burns after a cigarette was lit near an oxygen cylinder in his ward.

A sitting of Dublin District Coroner’s Court heard Joseph Murphy, 85, sustained extensive burn injuries to his body in the early hours of Christmas Eve, 2018, after his bed in St Luke’s Hospital in Rathgar went up in flames.