Age: 48
Sex: male
Date: 6 Nov 1993
Place: Willenhall, Walsall
Malcom Pugh died in a fire.
An open verdict was returned.
He had claimed aliens were coming for him.
The cause of the fire could not be determined.
He was found by firefighter's in a room barricaded from floor to ceiling with furniture and taken to Birmingham Accident Hospital where he died soon after. He was described as having been barely alive.
The pathologist gave his cause of death as being due to waterlogged lungs from asphyxiation. He had also suffered second degree burns to 20% of his body.
On the morning of his death, at 6.15am, he had gone to see a friend. The friend said:
The friend said that he checked the hallway, but couldn't see anything.
A fire investigator said that he could find no definite cause for the fire.
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see Sandwell Evening Mail - Saturday 06 November 1993