A millionaire businessman who founded heating giant Worcester Bosch died from cancer which he contracted from his famous boilers, his widow has claimed.
Cecil Duckworth CBE, who built Worcester Warriors into one of the country s most prominent rugby union clubs, featured in the Sunday Times Rich List with an estimated fortune of £40million.
Last month the 83-year-old Worcester-based philanthropist died from cancer that started in the lining of Mr Duckworth s lungs.
An inquest on December 11 ruled that his death had been caused by malignant pulmonary mesothelioma that is commonly caused by inhaled asbestos fibres.
Mr Duckworth s heartbroken widow Beatrice, 82, has now claimed her husband probably inhaled the deadly fibres while developing his famous boilers in the 1960s.