David Ian Roberts, 69, died after being electrocuted. He was busy erecting a 20ft metal flagpole in his back garden before he was zapped with 11,000 volts when it touched an overhead power cable.
The power lines had been there when the house was bought.
Surprise Got Tragic
The erection was to surprise his wife as he has kept the flagpole 18 months before the tragic incident.
His wife, found his dead body when she returned home at about 7.20pm.
Not receiving her customary welcome-greeting at the door from husband, she looked around for him and saw her dead in the garden.
The heartbroken wife who is a barber recalled: ‘I noticed Ian face down into our grass.’
Findings say he may have died three hours before his wife’s arrival.
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Mobile phone evidence showed he’d last made a call a few hours earlier and had received missed calls from 4.30pm.
From a mobile phone app his family discovered his last step was at 4.17pm.
The tragedy happened only a week after the holiday-loving couple had returned from a trip around the US where they visited cities including Las Vegas and New York. They also had a motor home for road trips.
