A PENSIONER died after falling from the roof of his home in Flackwell Heath - where he had climbed up to adjust his television aerial, an inquest heard.

Terrence Connor, 75, rolled down the pitched roof of his Carrington Avenue home and crashed into a utility room through a "flimsy" corrugated cover on February 16, the inquest at High Wycombe Law Courts heard last week.

Wife Pauline heard a "bang" when he came through the roof and emergency services were called, the inquest heard.

But Mr Connor had hit a concrete floor and suffered a fatal head injury in the fall, the Bucks coroner Richard Hulett was told.

Mr Hulett said: "Mr Connor was very interested I think in adjusting the aerial to get the maximum number of channels he could...It’s something he had done before.

"What happened to him was heard rather than seen....Plainly he must have lost his footing or his balance. I suppose if someone’s on a roof there’s always a risk something like that is going to happen."

He recorded a verdict of accidental death.