MYSTERY surrounds the death of a grandfather found dead in bed, an inquest heard.

Raymond Morris and his wife Madeline had an argument three days before he died and the 60-year-old had injured his chest in recent weeks but no cause of death could be found, the East Dorset Coroner was told.

Coroner’s officer Alan Young told the inquest he was called to the couple’s Christchurch home in Moffat Road on Saturday, July 14 and his wife Madeline was too upset to talk to him.

Paramedics told him she had described them having a “disagreement” three days before.

Mrs Morris said they were supposed to be going out on the Wednesday and the retired electrician decided to help somebody with a job.

“He did the job rather than going out,” she said.

“He was always doing something for somebody and I got rather cross.

“He said ‘It won’t be long’ but it was always long.”

She stayed at their son’s house on the Thursday after work but the couple had dinner together on the Friday before she left for work early on the Saturday, leaving him asleep.

But when she returned home on Saturday afternoon she found him in dead in bed, the inquest heard.

Mrs Morris said her husband had complained of chest pain after banging his chest at the tip.

He was also diabetic but post mortem examinations found no excess or lack of insulin and no other cause of death.

East Dorset coroner Sheriff Payne recorded an open verdict and said: “We’ve got nothing to explain his death.”