Radio presenter died of mystery head injury

11:16am Wednesday 21st November 2007

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A FORMER local radio presenter died as a result of a mystery head injury, an inquest heard.

The hearing was told that Philip Edward Scott suffered a cranial bleed despite there not being a fracture to his skull.

But medical records showed he was being prescribed anti-blood clotting drug warfarin following surgery to replace a heart valve.

And the inquest was told this could have rendered him liable to bleeding even if the trauma had not been severe.

Mr Scott, 58, of Ferrier Court, Blackburn, a former presenter on Radio Blackburn, the forerunner of Radio Lancashire, underwent surgery after a CT scan showed a brain haemorrhage, the inquest was told. He died seven months later in August.

Pathologist Dr Richard Prescott gave the medical cause of death as bronchopneumonia due to a sub-dural haemorrhage due to a head injury. He said the surgery carried out had been appropriate and properly executed but it had failed to reverse a process that was already in place.

Dr Prescott confirmed that warfarin would have rendered Mr Scott liable to bleeding in the case of any kind of trauma.

Mr Scott's nephew, David Brown said that subsequent to his admission to hospital he had not been in a position to say how he had come by the head injury.

Debra Montague, a friend who saw Mr Scott on a regular basis, said he never mentioned falling or banging his head.