Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox A tragic 'gentle giant' who spent six months in a coma with serious head injuries told medics he had been attacked by a stranger the week before he was admitted to hospital, an inquest hearing was told.
Stephen Rimmer, 42, admitted himself to Royal Oldham Hospital on Wednesday, August 21, 2019, a week after he was attacked by an unknown offender.
The step-father suffered serious serious facial injuries and then went into cardiac arrest, with medics placing him into an induced coma.
But Mr Rimmer, a forklift truck driver from Rochdale, never woke up and died in hospital on Saturday, March 7, 2020. Today (Monday) brief details of the case were
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