Terminally-ill angler fell into in lake and drowned

Mr Mosquera, of Woodrow Avenue, Hayes, had been diagnosed as having a brain tumour months before his death and was told he had around 18 months to live.
A statement from his wife Dawn Mosquera, who he had married nine months previously, was read out to the court and stated she had spoken to him several times by mobile phone the day before his death but had become concerned when he did not respond the next day. She said he had suffered three seizures previously.
A friend John Harry, who had planned to visit Mr Mosquera at the private lake at Thorney Weir House on April 29, said he did not get any response to a phone call made before.
He arrived at the lake at around 2pm and was taken over to the tent Mr Mosquera had pitched but was unable to find his friend at first. He noticed a portable stove and saucepan were lying on their sides.
Around a quarter of an hour later he spotted the body of Mr Mosquera face-down in the lake at around 25 to 30 feet from the water's edge.
He said: "I saw something in the lake. I thought it was a barrel or something. I knew he was dead immediately."
Mr Mosquera, who was unemployed, had been invited to use the lake in the grounds of the house by its owner Mary Harper, who had heard about Mr Mosquera's illness through a mutual friend.
She told the court at the hearing last Wednesday (9/9) she had seen Mr Mosquera at around 11am and her son Todd had spoken to him on a walk around the lake.
She had later walked past his tent, which she noticed seemed messy, but had not seen him or anything she thought was suspicious.
Mrs Harper said: "It's a lovely place to fish and he loved fishing. He was a lovely lovely man. It's a terrible shame."
Buckinghamshire Coroner Richard Hulett recorded a verdict of accidental death. He said: "This gentleman was very unlucky, which is an understatement, to be told he had got a brain tumour and in fact it was going to be a terminal prognosis, although he was going to have some treatment which might have prolonged his life.
"Somewhere between 11am and noon he must have had a fit which possessed him quite violently. Stumbling and knocking things about, unfortunately his direction was towards the water. It could have been the other direction and he could have recovered."
He added: "He was a very keen angler I am told and his family have adopted the stance that it was something worthy - that he died doing an activity he greatly enjoyed."