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Tragic death: Bryan Tilling choked on a hot cross bun, leading to a heart attack, after doctors failed to spot he had a stroke which left him unable to swallow

Tragic death: Bryan Tilling choked on a hot cross bun, leading to a heart attack, after doctors failed to spot he had a stroke which left him unable to swallow

 

A film editor who helped create the sci-fi blockbuster Alien choked to death on a hot cross bun fed to him by his daughter, an inquest has heard.

Before his death Bryan Tilling, 81, suffered a stroke which left him unable to swallow food.

Unaware of the catastrophic effect food could have on him, Mr Tilling’s daughter Janice, 60, fed him a hot cross bun.

Mr Tilling, whose friends included Hollywood stars Sharon Stone, Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt, choked as he tried to swallow the bun.

This triggered a heart attack and despite desperate attempts to revive him he died on February 19.

An inquest at Oxfordshire Coroners Court on Tuesday heard that the stroke had destroyed his gag-reflex, which prevents choking.

Last night his daughter, a self-employed IT specialist, accused his doctors of ‘failing’ her father in his final days.

Speaking from her home in Didcot, Oxfordshire, Miss Tilling said: ‘My dad was clearly ill but the doctors just wanted to get rid of him.

‘After he fell over on his face he was in a very bad way and I wanted to cheer him up with a bun.

‘It was horrible watching my father die in front of me because I gave him a hot cross bun.

‘Initially I felt responsible for his death but I had no way of knowing his gag reflex had gone.’

Mr Tilling was being treated for dementia at the Churchill Hospital in Headington, Oxfordshire, when he suffered the fit.

He was then rushed to emergency wing of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.


 
Anger: Miss Tilling attacked the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford because a doctor did not attend when they went there for a visit shortly before her father's stroke

Anger: Miss Tilling attacked the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford because a doctor did not attend when they went there for a visit shortly before her father's stroke

 

 

Hours later he was discharged back to the Churchill Hospital and told to take paracetamol.

At some point between being discharged and his death he suffered the stroke which left him susceptible to choking.

Miss Tilling said: ‘I am particularly angry with the John Radcliffe Hospital because we were told a neurologist was coming to see my dad but he never turned up.

‘My dad never went to the doctor in his life unless he was ill.

‘He never made a fuss and always paid his taxes but when it came to his time for help he wasn’t given it and he died in a horrific way.’

Miss Tilling claimed that failures by medical staff at Churchill Hospital forced her to dial 999 on her mobile phone as her father was choking.

It took paramedics 15 minutes to get to her father’s bedside. But by then he had already died.

Mr Tilling, who lived in Harwell, near Didcot, was one of Britain’s leading science fiction film editors.

 


Close friend: Sigourney Weaver, pictured here in the the 1979 Alien film, worked with Bryan. He also knew several other films stars

Close friend: Sigourney Weaver, pictured here in the the 1979 Alien film, worked with Bryan. He also knew several other films stars

 

 

The father-of -two worked on numerous well-known films, including Nineteen Eighty-Four – a British science fiction film based on the George Orwell novel – and on the Hammer House of Horror TV series.

During the inquest, ward nurse Rikki Lorenti said he disagreed with the doctors’ decision to return him to the Churchill Hospital.

Recording a narrative verdict, Coroner Nicholas Gardiner said Mr Tilling had probably suffered a stroke which was ‘nearly impossible’ to diagnose at the time.

The stroke had caused neurological damage, which left Mr Tilling with trouble swallowing and left his oesophagus ‘cramped full of food’, he said.

Pathologist Dr Sanjiv Manek gave the cause of death as ‘obstruction of the airway leading to cardiac arrest’.



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