An inquest heard Vaidotas Gerbutavicius told his father he feared he would be "dead within an hour" and that he felt a "burning sensation" after ingesting several of the illegal toxic tablets in March 2018] Coroner Dr Shirley Radcliffe told East London Coroner’s Court: ‘The circumstances of the death are somewhat unusual.
‘It would seem that he had gained access to the roof of the kitchen with the skylight, had attempted to get into the property via the skylight and, tragically, the skylight had closed on his fingers and he was unable to free himself.
Khaled Aribi, an Algerian asylum seeker, was found dead by an estate agent after she arrived for a viewing at the home in Walthamstow, north east London.
The 32-year-old got his finger trapped in the skylight and an inquest heard he had been dead for ‘some considerable time’ before he was found.
A homeless man starved to death after he got trapped in a skylight trying to enter an empty home.
