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Kaspars Ajuts

Age: 48

Sex: male

Date: 26 Feb 2017

Place: Marsham Street, Maidstone, Kent

Kaspars Ajuts died in a fire at a terraced house in Marsham Street, Maidstone.

It was not known how the fire had started although it was heard that it might have been started by someone. The fire brigade said that the fire had started in Kaspars Ajuts's son's room and that it had been caused by a 'human act'. His inquest heard that the fire might have been started by a dropped cigarette but it was also heard that there was no evidence for that.

The fire had started after a drinking session. Kaspars Ajuts, his wife and son and a friend had drunk ten bottles of wine between them on the evening before going to bed after finishing all the alcohol in the house.

His wife and son as well as his friend, who had stayed downstairs, all survived.

The friend said that he had been downstairs when he heard the fire alarm and that when he went upstairs to the son's bedroom he saw the mattress on fire and flames going up the curtains and said that he then woke the son up. He said that he then went upstairs to the attic bedroom to wake Kaspars Ajuts and his wife up, but said that he could not wake Kaspars Ajuts.

The friend said that then, in a panic, he ran downstairs with Kaspars Ajuts's wife to try and put out the fire with a bucket of water. Meanwhile Kaspars Ajuts's son tried to rescue Kaspars Ajuts from the attic bedroom but was beaten back by the flames from which he suffered burns to his face and arms.

At about the same time a neighbour had called the fire brigade.

Kaspars Ajuts had been found inside the house by firemen and pulled out, but he was pronounced dead on his doorstep.

Kaspars Ajuts weighed 26-stone and had been in poor health. His post mortem also revealed that he had had 349mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood which was described as a potentially lethal blood alcohol level.

His cause of death was given as inhalation of fire fumes and an enlarged heart.


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