G20 heart attack possible, says Patel

Pathologist tells inquest he found no physical evidence shove caused death but stress could aggravate heart condition The stress caused by Ian Tomlinson being shoved to the ground by a police officer during the G20 protests could have triggered a heart attack, pathologist Freddy Patel has told an inquest. Patel, who concluded in a postmortem that the newspaper seller died of a heart attack, said it was “well recognised” that a stressful trauma could aggravate a heart condition. But he had found no physical evidence that this had caused the death, which he attributed to natural causes. Tomlinson, 47, collapsed and died near the Bank of England on 1

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