Georgian billionaire had severe heart disease, inquest told

February 15, 2008 8:49 pm

The Georgian billionaire who collapsed and died at his Surrey mansion on Tuesday was suffering from severe heart disease, an inquest heard today.

A coroner was told the health of 52-year-old Badri Patarkatsishvili was such that he could have died “at any time”. Postmortem tests have already found that he probably died of natural causes.

However, Woking coroner’s court was told today that a report by pathologist Dr Ashley Fegan-Earl had found that Patarkatsishvili suffered from coronary heart disease.

He said: “This was of a severity that could have resulted in a sudden and unexplained collapse and death at any time.”

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